Amazon Web Services (AWS) has officially announced the general availability of Amazon Security Lake. This purpose-built data lake is designed to assist customers and partners in gaining a comprehensive understanding of their security posture across their entire organization. By centralizing security data from various sources, including AWS environments, SaaS providers, on-premises environments, and cloud sources, Amazon Security Lake enables users to act swiftly in enhancing the protection of their workloads, applications, and data.
Over 55 customers and partners, such as Cribl, CrowdStrike, Datadog, SentinelOne, Splunk, and Wiz, have integrated their services with Amazon Security Lake, reinforcing its value in the industry.
Seattle, Washington—Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), has announced the general availability of Amazon Security Lake. This new service automatically consolidates an organization's security data from various sources, including AWS environments, leading SaaS providers, on-premises environments, and cloud sources, into a specialized data lake. The primary goal is to empower customers to quickly respond to security data and streamline security data management in hybrid and multicloud environments. By converting and aligning incoming security data with the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) open standard, Amazon Security Lake simplifies the process of automatically collecting, combining, and analyzing security data from more than 80 sources, including AWS, security partners, and analytics providers. As part of AWS's comprehensive suite of cloud security services, Amazon Security Lake leverages AWS's secure infrastructure, which is trusted by millions of customers, including highly security-conscious organizations. Furthermore, a broad community of security partners supports the service, enabling customers to enhance their cloud security. With its ability to aggregate and optimize large volumes of disparate log and event data, Amazon Security Lake enables organizations to detect, investigate, and respond to potential threats swiftly, utilizing their preferred analytics tools. To get started with Amazon Security Lake, visit https://aws.amazon.com/security-lake.
Jon Ramsey, Vice President for Security Services at AWS, highlighted the company's longstanding commitment to security, stating, "Security has been our top priority since the very beginning when we were designing to meet the needs of the most security-sensitive organizations. We also know that customers need trusted partners to extend the benefits of the cloud and make sure their organizations are secure end-to-end. With more than 80 sources providing data to Amazon Security Lake, security teams can achieve greater visibility into potential security threats and how to respond to them, further protecting the workloads, applications, and data that are critical to driving business forward."
To proactively identify, assess, and respond to potential threats and vulnerabilities, organizations rely on log and event data from various sources, each with its own data format. However, analyzing security-related insights, such as unauthorized data transfers and malware installations, requires aggregating and standardizing security data into a consistent schema. This is often a complex and time-consuming process, especially when using multiple security solutions that duplicate and process the same data multiple times. Additionally, managing data access rules and security policies for multiple tools and sources can be challenging for security teams. Some organizations have attempted to address these challenges by creating a central repository for security data in a data lake, but this approach requires specialized skills and significant time investment due to the large volume of data from different sources.
Amazon Security Lake offers a purpose-built solution for aggregating, normalizing, and storing security data, enabling organizations to respond faster to security events, simplify compliance monitoring and reporting, and streamline security data management across hybrid and multicloud environments. The service utilizes Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and AWS Lake Formation to automatically set up the necessary infrastructure within customers'