Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), has increased the functionality and extended the reach of its AWS IoT Defender security service for Internet of Things.
AWS IoT Device Defender was launched a year ago. It is a fully managed service that helps organizations protect their fleets IoT devices. AWS IoT Device Defender continuously audits IoT configurations to make sure they comply with security best practices. IoT configurations are organization-specified technical controls to help keep information secure when devices are communicating among one another and the cloud.
AWS announced last week that IoT Device Defender’s reach had been extended to two additional regions: EU, Paris and EU, Stockholm. This brings the total number AWS regions where IoT Device Defender can be found to 15.
Two days after a functionality improvement, the regional expansion was completed.
AWS stated that AWS IoT Device Defender now supports customers being able to apply mitigation actions to audit findings. Customers can use predefined mitigation actions, customize them, and apply them at scale. Customers can now choose from the following predefined mitigation actions to automate an audit response: Add things to thing group, enable IoT log, publish to SNS topic; replace default policy version; update CA certificate and update device certificate. You can use mitigation actions using the AWS IoT console, AWS Command Line Interface(CLI), or APIs.
After last year’s general availability debut and adding statistical anomaly detection, data visualization, and support for monitoring the behavior unregistered devices in May, the cloud giant has been busy updating IoT Device Defender.
