Issue #105

Monday · February 13, 2023

đŸ„— AWS security blogs

  • Updated ebook: Protecting your AWS environment from ransomware — Amazon Web Services is excited to announce that we’ve updated the AWS ebook, Protecting your AWS environment from ransomware. The new ebook includes the top 10 best practices for ransomware protection and covers new services and features that have been released since the original published date in April 2020. We 

  • Improve security of Amazon RDS master database credentials using AWS Secrets Manager — Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it simpler to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the AWS Cloud. AWS Secrets Manager helps you manage, retrieve, and rotate database credentials, API keys, and other secrets. Amazon RDS now offers integration with Secrets Manager to manage master database credentials. You no longer have to manage 

  • The anatomy of ransomware event targeting data residing in Amazon S3 — Ransomware events have significantly increased over the past several years and captured worldwide attention. Traditional ransomware events affect mostly infrastructure resources like servers, databases, and connected file systems. However, there are also non-traditional events that you may not be as familiar with, such as ransomware events that target data stored 


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🧁 IAM permission changes

  • iotfleetwise: 2 new actions — 2 new actions: BatchCreateVehicle (Grants permission to create a batch of vehicles), BatchUpdateVehicle (Grants permission to update a batch of vehicles)
  • autoscaling: 1 new action — 1 new action: RollbackInstanceRefresh (Grants permission to rollback an instance refresh operation in progress)
  • glue: 4 updated actions — 4 updated actions: CreateBlueprint (resources), CreateJob (resources), CreateTrigger (resources), CreateWorkflow (resources)

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