Blogs

In this post, I show you how to deploy a sample custom Alexa skill and use an Alexa-enabled device, such as Amazon Echo, to get information about GuardDuty findings across your AWS accounts and regions. The information provided by this sample skill gives you a broad overview of GuardDuty finding statistics, severities, and descriptions. When you hear something interesting, you can log in to the GuardDuty console or another analysis tool to investigate the findings data....

Amazon Cognito lets you easily add user sign-up and sign-in to your mobile and web applications. In addition, Amazon Cognito supports OAuth 2.0 as an industry standard protocol for authorization, and the sample application in this blog post relies on JSON Web Tokens to authorize access to private content. JSON Web Token (JWT) is a JSON-based open standard for creating access tokens which assert a series of claims as a JSON object....

CloudFront field-level encryption helps secure sensitive data such as a customer phone numbers by adding another security layer to CloudFront HTTPS. Using this functionality, you can help ensure that sensitive information in a POST request is encrypted at CloudFront edge locations. This information remains encrypted as it flows to and beyond your origin servers that terminate HTTPS connections with CloudFront and throughout the application environment. In this blog post, we demonstrate how you can enhance the security of sensitive data by using CloudFront field-level encryption....

In this blog post, we show you how to configure an LDAPS (LDAP over SSL/TLS) encrypted endpoint for Simple AD so that you can extend Simple AD over untrusted networks. Our solution uses Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) to send decrypted LDAP traffic to HAProxy running on Amazon EC2, which then sends the traffic to Simple AD. read more...

In this blog post, I show how you can use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to collect and aggregate alerts from an open-source security (OSSEC) HIDS. I use a CloudWatch Logs subscription to deliver the alerts to Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) for analysis and visualization with Kibana – a popular open-source visualization tool. read more...