Amazon Unveils Massive Security System to Protect its Cloud Services

AWS Introduces Mithra, a Large-Scale Security System

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new security system designed to protect its cloud services from threats. The Mithra system uses an internal neural network graph model with 3.5 billion nodes and 48 billion edges to spot and rank the trustworthiness of domains and identify potential threats.

Key Features of Mithra

Mithra assigns a trustworthiness score to each domain queried within AWS, removing the need to rely on third parties. It can detect 182,000 new malicious domains per day and provides a constantly updated list of malicious domain names for security providers to monitor and block.

Benefits of Mithra

• Predicts malicious domains days, weeks, and months before they appear on third-party threat feeds
• Provides recommendations on response to potential cyber attacks
• Helps maintain a high-quality list of malicious domains to observe and block

Quote from Amazon Chief Information Security Officer CJ Moses

“We are encouraged by how our efforts to share our threat intelligence have helped customers and other organizations be more secure…”