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Explore advanced data breach prevention strategies in AWS environments through this 17-minute conference talk from AWS re:Invent 2025. Learn why traditional posture management approaches like DSPM and CSPM fall short when attackers use legitimate stolen credentials, which account for 86% of data breaches today. Discover how data-centric threat detection can identify and stop sophisticated attacks including ransomware, phishing campaigns, and malicious insider threats that bypass conventional security controls. Examine Varonis's approach to safeguarding against identity-based attacks using user entity behavior analytics (UEBA) to detect active threats in real-time. Understand how to implement comprehensive forensics logging for security investigations and compliance requirements while augmenting AWS GuardDuty with specialized data-centric threat detection capabilities. Gain practical insights into protecting AWS data assets when traditional perimeter security measures prove insufficient against credential-based attacks.
Syllabus
AWS re:Invent 2025 - Beyond Posture Management: Stopping Data Breaches in AWS (SEC209)
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