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Organizations can now leverage CrowdStrike’s machine learning technology to scan files in AWS storage for malicious code.

AWS-managed storage services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) are often the data store of choice for applications and data ingestion workflows.

Cloud Storage Security (CSS) is always working to improve our users’ experience and we’re excited to share the following noteworthy improvements to Antivirus for Amazon S3 (AVS3) and Data Classification for Amazon S3 (DCS3): Event-based scanning for data classification, improved scanning performance, improved archive handling and more.

Cloud Storage Security (CSS) is always working to improve our users’ experience and we’re excited to share the following noteworthy improvements to Antivirus for Amazon S3 (AVS3) and Data Classification for Amazon S3 (DCS3): AWS CloudTrail Lake integration, license mode switching, EC2 tagging, enhanced compressed file scanning, additional API scan file handling, and IdP support for GovCloud.

In March of 2020, Cloud Storage Security (CSS) was founded in order to answer a complicated and often-asked question: "How can I ensure the security of the data I store in the cloud?" Three years later, CSS has scanned billions of files totaling petabytes of data, found over 30,000 pieces of malware, and brought peace of mind to hundreds of customers across the world through its malware detection, sensitive data discovery, and storage assessment offerings.

Cloud Storage Security is excited to share that customers now have access to Storage Assessment functionality. Designed to enhance data intelligence, Storage Assessment answers questions like “How much data do I have?”, “In what regions is it located?”, “What encryption coverage do I have?” and “How many buckets are open to the public?” by providing the following data points:

Antivirus and Data Classification provider enables customers to ingest events into AWS CloudTrail for security and compliance purposes January 31, 2023 – Today, data security software provider Cloud Storage Security (CSS) is among the first Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partners to integrate with AWS CloudTrail Lake to consolidate activity data reporting. This is noteworthy as historically AWS CloudTrail did not ingest third party data; it logged data generated from AWS services. With this integration, customers can now ingest and analyze events in a CloudTrail-compatible schema from the CSS console to streamline auditing, security investigation, and operational troubleshooting.

On January 5, 2023, AWS automated server-side encryption for all new objects in Amazon Simple Storage Service (SSE-S3). In this article, we review SSE-S3 (some features may surprise you), discuss how to assess encryption status (with and without help), and touch on how to encrypt existing objects in S3.

Cloud Storage Security (CSS) is always working to improve our users’ experience and we’re excited to share the following noteworthy Antivirus for Amazon S3 updates: Amazon EventBridge integration, AWS Control Tower integration, storage assessment, “suspicious” file identification, proxy enhancements, and read-only root files.