AWS Security Agent (Preview): AI agent for proactive app security

AWS Security Agent Preview

AWS announces the preview of AWS Security Agent, an AI-powered agent that proactively secures your applications throughout the development lifecycle. It conducts automated security reviews and context-aware penetration testing, helping prevent vulnerabilities early in development across all environments.

Security teams define organizational security requirements in the AWS Security Agent console, such as approved encryption libraries, authentication frameworks, and logging standards. AWS Security Agent automatically validates these requirements throughout development by evaluating architectural documents and code against your defined standards, providing specific guidance when violations are detected.

For deployment validation, security teams define their penetration testing scope and AWS Security Agent develops application context, executes sophisticated attack chains, and discovers and validates vulnerabilities. This delivers consistent security policy enforcement across all teams, scales security reviews to match development velocity, and transforms penetration testing into an on-demand capability that dramatically reduces risk exposure.

What to do

• Visit the product page to learn more.
• Read the launch announcement for more details.
• See the AWS Security Agent documentation to get started.

Source: AWS release notes

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