CloudSec Wine

🔶 The Many Ways to Manage Access to an EC2 Instance By Sym’s Mathew Pregasen. Options: EC2 key pairs, SSH access via 3rd-party tools, SSH access via IAM policies, eliminate direct access via GitOps (SSM’s Run Command), and temporary or JIT access. https://blog.symops.com/2022/09/22/ec2-access #aws

🔶 Run a Tailscale VPN relay on ECS/Fargate A step by step tutorial on how to run Tailscale in ECS. https://platformers.dev/log/2022/tailscale-ecs #aws

🔶 Using Kyverno To Enforce AWS Load Balancer Annotations For Centralized Logging To S3 Post covering the steps to take in order to use Kyverno to automatically configure the annotations that enable access logs for an AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) to be forwarded to an S3 bucket. https://silvr.medium.com/using-kyverno-to-enforce-aws-load-balancer-annotations-for-centralized-logging-to-s3-af5dc1f1f3e0 #aws

🔶 zoph-io/aws-security-survival-kit Victor Grenu helps you set up minimal alerting on typical suspicious activities on your AWS Account. Using this kit, you will deploy CloudWatch EventRules and CW alarms on: 1️⃣ Root User activities 2️⃣ CloudTrail changes 3️⃣ AWS Personal Health Events 4️⃣ IAM Users changes 5️⃣ MFA updates 6️⃣ Unauthorized Operations 7️⃣ Failed AWS Console login authentication https://github.com/zoph-io/aws-security-survival-kit #aws

🔶 How DoorDash Ensures Velocity and Reliability through Policy Automation How DoorDash leverages OPA to build policy-based guardrails with codified rules that ensure velocity and reliability for cloud infrastructure automated deployments. https://doordash.engineering/2022/09/20/how-doordash-ensures-velocity-and-reliability-through-policy-automation #aws

🔶 AWS IAM Identity Center Access Tokens are Stored in Clear Text and No, That's Not a Critical Vulnerability Assuming constant full compromise of all machines is probably going to lead to controls where users can't reasonably do work. https://itnext.io/aws-iam-identity-center-access-tokens-are-stored-in-clear-text-and-no-thats-not-a-critical-68a48c1e398 #aws

🔷 Azure Attack Paths Post shedding some light on known attack paths in an Azure environment. https://cloudbrothers.info/azure-attack-paths #azure

🔷 Azure Cloud Shell Command Injection: Stealing User's Access Tokens This post describes how a researcher took over an Azure Cloud Shell trusted domain and leveraged it to inject and execute commands in other users' terminals. https://blog.lightspin.io/azure-cloud-shell-command-injection-stealing-users-access-tokens #azure

🔶 thundra-io/merloc By Thundra: A live AWS Lambda function development and debugging tool. MerLoc allows you to run AWS Lambda functions on your local while they are still part of a flow in the AWS cloud remote. https://github.com/thundra-io/merloc #aws

🔶 Authenticating to AWS the right way for (almost) every use-case Lee Briggs covers the right way to authenticate to AWS in a variety of scenarios: 1️⃣ Authenticate to AWS as a Human User: AWS IAM Identity Center 2️⃣ Authenticate to AWS as an EC2 Instance: IAM Role, possibly Instance Profile 3️⃣ Authenticate to AWS as an application that only manages content in an S3 bucket: Presigned URLs 4️⃣ Authenticate to AWS as a CI/CD Pipeline: OIDC Providers 5️⃣ Authenticate to AWS as compute I manage that isn’t running inside AWS: IAM Roles Anywhere https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2022/09/05/authenticating-to-aws-the-right-way #aws

🔶 matanolabs/matano An open source security lake platform for AWS that lets you ingest petabytes of security and log data from various sources, store and query them in an open Apache Iceberg data lake, and create Python detections as code for realtime alerting. Matano is fully serverless and designed specifically for AWS and focuses on enabling high scale, low cost, and zero-ops. https://github.com/matanolabs/matano #aws

🔶 AWS Ramp-Up Guide: Security A guide that can help you prepare for the "AWS Certified Security - Specialty" certification exam. https://d1.awsstatic.com/training-and-certification/ramp-up_guides/Ramp-Up_Guide_Security.pdf #aws

🔷 Azure Active Directory Pass-Through Authentication Flaws Secureworks researchers analyzed how the protocols used by Pass-Through Authentication (PTA) could be exploited. The result? A compromised PTA agent certificate gives threat actors persistent and undetectable access to a target organization. https://www.secureworks.com/research/azure-active-directory-pass-through-authentication-flaws #azure

🔶 awslabs/aws-security-assessment-solution An AWS tool to help you create a point in time assessment of your AWS account using Prowler and Scout as well as optional AWS developed ransomware checks. https://github.com/awslabs/aws-security-assessment-solution #aws

🔶 awslabs/aws-security-assessment-solution An AWS tool to help you create a point in time assessment of your AWS account using Prowler and Scout as well as optional AWS developed ransomware checks. https://github.com/awslabs/aws-security-assessment-solution #aws

🔴 Understanding basic networking in GKE - Networking basics Post exploring the networking components of GKE and the various options that exist. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/understanding-basic-networking-gke-networking-basics #gcp

🔶 The Complete Guide to AWS KMS An intro guide to AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), its different key types, and access (IAM) best practices. https://blog.lightspin.io/the-complete-guide-to-aws-kms #aws

🔶 A Federated Approach To Providing User Privacy Rights How Lyft approaches managing user privacy in order to seamlessly handle compliance, data export, and deletion. https://eng.lyft.com/a-federated-approach-to-providing-user-privacy-rights-3d9ab73441d9 #aws

🔶 Attacking Firecracker: AWS' microVM Monitor Written in Rust Firecracker is a microVM manager in Rust that powers AWS services like Lambda and Fargate. Here's how a red team team attacked a vulnerability in Firecracker. https://www.graplsecurity.com/post/attacking-firecracker #aws

🔶 CJ Moses might be the CISO of AWS, but service leaders own their own security Interesting interview with AWS’s CJ Moses covering topics including: 1️⃣ What are your duties as CISO? 2️⃣ What is AWS’ security strategy? 3️⃣ What’s the biggest threat to cloud security right now and how do you stay ahead of all these bad actors? 4️⃣ What are the biggest security mistakes that you see enterprise customers repeating? https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/cj-moses-aws-ciso #aws