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AI tests the limits of enterprise security governance

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AI tests the limits of enterprise security governance 2026-09-28 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic AI agents are forcing enterprises to rethink security governance, human accountability and oversight as deployments scale. AWS’s Reimagine 2026 argues that organizations need to build governance into their systems and keep humans accountable for outcomes. The findings come from confidential interviews […]

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Iranian strikes on AWS facilities left customer data beyond recovery in Bahrain, UAE

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Iranian strikes on AWS facilities left customer data beyond recovery in Bahrain, UAE 2026-09-17 at 16:12 By Sinisa Markovic Six months after Iranian drone strikes tore through its Middle East infrastructure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acknowledged the permanent loss of customer data in Bahrain and the UAE. In two updates posted September 15, AWS […]

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AWS’s new sign-up gives accounts spend caps, email invites, and agent-set permissions

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AWS’s new sign-up gives accounts spend caps, email invites, and agent-set permissions 2026-09-17 at 07:51 By Sinisa Markovic New AWS customers can now sign up with a Google, GitHub, or Apple login, start with $100 in Free Tier credits, and build inside a “project” where AWS and coding agents set up permissions automatically. Paid projects […]

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AWS spent years rebuilding its routing control plane without taking the network down

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AWS spent years rebuilding its routing control plane without taking the network down 2026-09-09 at 07:52 By Anamarija Pogorelec Every AWS API call, CloudFront video stream, and Route 53 lookup crosses the same infrastructure, which AWS calls its border network. It now runs on a routing system rebuilt from scratch over several years. The system […]

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Your AI agent’s system prompt is not a security control

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Your AI agent’s system prompt is not a security control 2026-09-03 at 10:53 By Anamarija Pogorelec An AI agent told in its system prompt to show a user only what that user is cleared to see will hand over more the moment someone talks it into doing so. Gee Rittenhouse, who oversees Security Hub, GuardDuty, […]

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DuckDB stays open source while the team behind it goes to work for Amazon

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DuckDB stays open source while the team behind it goes to work for Amazon 2026-09-02 at 09:29 By Anamarija Pogorelec Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt started as AWS employees. The two built DuckDB, an analytical database that runs inside your process instead of on a server somebody has to administer. If you ship anything on […]

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AWS Console Private Access can block sign-ins to personal accounts

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AWS Console Private Access can block sign-ins to personal accounts 2026-08-31 at 14:57 By Anamarija Pogorelec The AWS Management Console now loads inside a network with no path to the public internet. Console Private Access became generally available on August 28 for virtual private clouds, the isolated networks customers run inside AWS, that have no […]

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AWS makes it easier to spot firewall rules that have gone quiet

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AWS makes it easier to spot firewall rules that have gone quiet 2026-08-24 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec AWS Network Firewall’s rule hit count capability gives security teams visibility into which stateful firewall rules are matching traffic, helping them identify unused or redundant rules and validate whether security controls are working as intended. The capability […]

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AWS limits AI agents’ data access, even when manipulated

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AWS limits AI agents’ data access, even when manipulated 2026-08-20 at 14:17 By Anamarija Pogorelec AWS has detailed an approach for propagating user authorization context through AI agents, allowing access controls to be enforced by infrastructure and downstream services rather than relying on the agent itself. Customers using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore can build AI agents […]

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AWS Certificate Manager sets 2027 end date for email-validated certificate renewals

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AWS Certificate Manager sets 2027 end date for email-validated certificate renewals 2026-08-14 at 11:25 By Anamarija Pogorelec AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) will phase out email validation for public certificates throughout 2027, ahead of the Certification Authority/Browser (CA/B) Forum’s March 15, 2028 deadline for ending email-based domain validation. The CA/B Forum sets standards that browsers and […]

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Weak IAM affects up to 98% of cloud environments

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Weak IAM affects up to 98% of cloud environments 2026-08-14 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Misconfiguration remains one of the leading threats to cloud environments because a single configuration error can result in public network access, unrotated keys, missing encryption, exposed services, and logging gaps. CISA now mandates baseline cloud configuration practices for US federal […]

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AWS to retire Shield Advanced L7 automatic mitigation on January 1, 2027

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AWS to retire Shield Advanced L7 automatic mitigation on January 1, 2027 2026-07-28 at 12:23 By Anamarija Pogorelec AWS Shield Advanced, a managed service that protects applications from external threats, is adding the Anti-DDoS managed rule group, designed for application-layer (L7) DDoS protection, to eligible web access control lists (ACLs) in Count mode. The addition […]

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Claude Opus 5 sharpens coding and cybersecurity work on AWS

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Claude Opus 5 sharpens coding and cybersecurity work on AWS 2026-07-27 at 01:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Claude Opus 5 went live on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Anthropic says the model improves on Claude Opus 4.8’s cyber capabilities, coding through cybersecurity. Anyone with an AWS account in a supported region can call it. […]

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AWS wants GuardDuty to automate the first steps of threat investigations

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AWS wants GuardDuty to automate the first steps of threat investigations 2026-07-21 at 12:14 By Anamarija Pogorelec Amazon GuardDuty investigation agent is now in public preview. The feature provides AI-powered investigations of GuardDuty findings, AWS accounts and AWS organizations, helping security teams reduce investigation time. During the public preview, the investigation agent is available at […]

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AWS retools Security Hub for AI and multicloud threats

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AWS retools Security Hub for AI and multicloud threats 2026-07-15 at 11:56 By Anamarija Pogorelec AWS added AI workload protection and Microsoft Azure security monitoring to Security Hub, its centralized security platform for collecting and prioritizing security findings across cloud environments. Support for additional cloud platforms will follow. “Collecting findings was never the hard part. […]

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“Context bombs” can frustrate AI-driven attacks, researchers found

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“Context bombs” can frustrate AI-driven attacks, researchers found 2026-07-14 at 15:27 By Zeljka Zorz A new approach tried out by Tracebit researchers has proven very effective at stopping AI agents from fully compromising targeted environments. What makes it notable isn’t the technique – prompt injection is old news – but the direction it’s pointed: not […]

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Cynative: Open-source deep research agent

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Cynative: Open-source deep research agent 2026-07-13 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz Running a large language model against a live cloud account to hunt for security holes comes with an obvious hazard. An agent that holds real credentials and a mandate to poke around can delete a bucket, flip a permission, or leak a secret on […]

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AWS gives its ERP agent deny-by-default rules and a separate identity

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AWS gives its ERP agent deny-by-default rules and a separate identity 2026-07-10 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic Accounts receivable teams at large companies spend hours each day matching incoming bank payments to invoices by hand. When those payments sit unmatched for days, cash flow suffers and days sales outstanding climbs. The same pattern repeats across […]

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AWS centralizes access, spending, and governance for Claude

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AWS centralizes access, spending, and governance for Claude 2026-07-09 at 11:37 By Anamarija Pogorelec Claude apps gateway for AWS is a self-hosted control plane that gives organizations a single point of control over access, costs, and policies for Claude Code and Claude Desktop. It replaces per-developer cloud credentials, manual distribution of managed settings to developer […]

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AWS Continuum brings AI models to code vulnerability management

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AWS Continuum brings AI models to code vulnerability management 2026-06-18 at 07:33 By Sinisa Markovic AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities, a system built to handle a vulnerability across its lifecycle, from discovery through to a fix, is now available in gated preview. It reasons over a customer’s environment, confirms which findings are real, and works […]

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