Attendees walk through an expo hall during AWS re:Invent 2021, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, at The Venetian Las Vegas on Nov. 30, 2021, in Las Vegas. (Photo by Noah Berger/Getty Images for Amazon Web Services)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week held re:Inforce in Boston, a learning conference focused on cloud security, compliance, identity and privacy.
SC Media spoke with leading cloud security analysts to share what they found most useful at the conference for security teams.
Melinda Marks, a senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, laid out the following points, which centered around improved dashboards, better visibility into container environments, and improved malware protection:
AWS announced new Vendor Insights with a simple dashboard to offer information about certifications and other information, such as cost estimates. Marks said this should enable efficiency for customer transactions with AWS partners, helping customers with ease of procurement, governance and control, professional support, and cost optimization.
Amazon Detective now delivers deeper visibility of container environments by adding support for Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS). Because there’s a high usage in the industry of Kubernetes to orchestrate use of containers, Amazon Detective now provides visibility and analysis of EKS activity, including API usage, container services, user behavior and pod details, without the need for agents. This should help security teams with investigations, giving access to information on underlying nodes.
AWS also announced GuardDuty Malware Protection, agentless detection of malware on AWS workloads. When enabled, it ..
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