AWS Shield introduces network security director (preview)

Today, AWS Shield announces the preview of network security director, a new capability that provides visibility into the AWS resources in your network, identifies missing or misconfigured network security services, and recommends remediation steps. As threats continue to evolve, AWS Shield has expanded its capabilities beyond DDoS protection to help you easily identify resources requiring network and application protection and correctly secure them.

With network security director, AWS Shield helps you simplify network security management in three ways. First, it provides visibility into your network topology, which shows you the resources in your account and how they are connected to each other and the Internet. It discovers enabled AWS network security services, such as AWS WAF, VPC security groups, and VPC network access control lists (NACLs), and determines how well they are configured relative to AWS best practices and threat intelligence. Second, AWS Shield helps you quickly identify which missing or misconfigured firewalls require your immediate attention by showing you network security findings on your resources, prioritized by severity level.

Lastly, for each finding, you can view actionable remediation recommendations to correctly implement or update the configuration of the network security services you use.

Easily get answers, in natural language, to questions about your network security configurations from AWS Shield network security director within Amazon Q Developer in the AWS Management Console and chat applications. For example, you can ask “Are any of my Internet-facing resources vulnerable to DDoS?”, and Amazon Q shows relevant network security findings on specific resources with recommended remediation steps. This capability is available during preview at no additional cost in select AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Stockholm). Amazon Q Developer’s capability to analyze network security configurations is available in preview in US East (N. Virginia).

To learn more, visit the overview page.