How Amazon Healthcare secures SaaS applications with AWS AppFabric

This article discusses how Amazon Healthcare secures their Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications by using AWS AppFabric to ingest and normalize audit logs from multiple SaaS applications.

Specifically, the article covers:

• The previous manual process for integrating third-party SaaS applications, which involved custom integrations and development work for each application.
• The challenges faced by Amazon Healthcare Security (Amazon HealthSec) in securing and monitoring SaaS applications, including schema variations and the need for custom integrations.
• How Amazon HealthSec leverages AWS AppFabric to simplify the onboarding process for SaaS applications by automatically normalizing audit logs into a standard schema.
• The architecture of Amazon HealthSec's SaaS application data pipeline with AppFabric, which integrates with their existing security data lake and monitoring system.
• The benefits achieved by using AppFabric, such as reducing the onboarding timeline from months to hours and enabling easy expansion to more SaaS applications.
• Conclusion: Amazon HealthSec uses AppFabric to streamline their audit log ingestion and normalization process, saving time and engineering effort while meeting regulatory requirements and maintaining a high security standard.