🔴 Shift-left your cloud compliance auditing with Audit Manager

Google announced that their Audit Manager service, which can digitize and help streamline the compliance auditing process, is now generally available.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/shift-left-your-cloud-compliance-auditing-with-audit-manager/

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🔶 Stop Using Predictable Bucket Names: A Failed Attempt at Hacking Satellites

This blog discusses the security risks of S3 bucket namesquatting in AWS, where attackers could potentially exploit predictable bucket naming patterns.

https://www.securityrunners.io/post/stop-using-predictable-bucket-names-a-failed-attempt-at-hacking-satellites

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🔶 Creating a Data Perimeter with Resource Control Policies (RCPs) and AWS KMS

Post which analyses Resource Control Policies, explains the benefits of RCPs vs SCPs, and gives 5 examples of how to use RCPs to build a multi-layered data perimeter to protect data.

https://www.fogsecurity.io/blog/data-perimeters-with-resource-control-policies-and-aws-kms

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🔶 How to use AWS Resource Control Policies

Another article, this time from Wiz, looking at the newly introduced RCPs.

https://www.wiz.io/blog/how-to-use-aws-resource-control-policies

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🔶 Hands-On Security Tips For Centralize Root Access In AWS

AWS has recently introduced a centralized root access management feature for AWS Organizations. This blog covers why this is important, how it changes root access management, and tips for how to handle this new feature.

https://medium.com/@oraspir/hands-on-security-tips-for-centralize-root-access-in-aws-assumeroot-5d315de423cd

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🔶 Secure root user access for member accounts in AWS Organizations

How you can centrally manage root credentials and perform tasks that previously required root credentials across member accounts in your organization.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/secure-root-user-access-for-member-accounts-in-aws-organizations/

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🔶 The New PKCE Authentication in AWS SSO Brings Hope (Mostly)

Post taking a closer look at the newly-released PKCE support for AWS SSO authentication flows.

https://blog.christophetd.fr/pkce-aws-sso/

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🔶 New AWS Security Incident Response helps organizations respond to and recover from security events

AWS introduced a new service to streamline security event response, providing automated triage, coordinated communication, and expert guidance to recover from cybersecurity threats.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/aws/new-aws-security-incident-response-helps-organizations-respond-to-and-recover-from-security-events/

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🔶 Introducing Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection: AI/ML attack sequence identification for enhanced cloud security

AWS extends GuardDuty with AI/ML capabilities to detect complex attack sequences across workloads, applications, and data, correlating multiple security signals over time for proactive cloud security.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-guardduty-extended-threat-detection-aiml-attack-sequence-identification-for-enhanced-cloud-security/

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🔴 sftp-gcs

An implementation of an SFTP to Google Cloud Storage bridge.

https://github.com/kolban-google/sftp-gcs

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🔶 AWS Clean Rooms now supports multiple clouds and data sources

With expanded data sources, AWS Clean Rooms helps customers securely collaborate with their partners' data across clouds, eliminating data movement, safeguarding sensitive information, promoting data freshness, and streamlining cross-company insights.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/aws/aws-clean-rooms-now-supports-multiple-clouds-and-data-sources/

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🔶🔷🔴 How Adversaries Abuse Serverless Services to Harvest Sensitive Data from Environment Variables

How threat actors can exploit sensitive data stored in serverless environment variables in AWS, Azure, GCP and Kubernetes, and the use of cloud-offensive tools for this purpose.

https://permiso.io/blog/how-adversaries-abuse-serverless-services-to-harvest-sensitive-data-from-environment-variables

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🔶 Exploring AWS STS AssumeRoot

A post from the Elastic team exploring AWS STS AssumeRoot, its risks, detection strategies, and practical scenarios to secure against privilege escalation and account compromise.

https://www.elastic.co/security-labs/exploring-aws-sts-assumeroot

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🔶 Tales from the cloud trenches: Unwanted visitor

A cloud attack targeting Amazon SES, persistence, and a malicious AWS account ID.

https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/tales-from-the-cloud-trenches-unwanted-visitor/

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🔴 Locking down Cloud Run: Inside Commerzbank's adoption of Custom Org Policies

Commerzbank has adopted Google Cloud's Custom Org Policies to enhance security for its Cloud Run environments, addressing the critical need for robust security in financial services.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/financial-services/commerzbank-cloud-run-custom-org-policies/

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🔶 A practical guide to getting started with policy as code

Post detailing the concepts, processes, and steps to get started with policy as code (PaC) and adopt this into your software development lifecycle.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/infrastructure-and-automation/a-practical-guide-to-getting-started-with-policy-as-code/

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🔶 AWS Network Firewall Geographic IP Filtering launch

Geographic IP Filtering is a new feature of Network Firewall that you can use to filter traffic based on geographic location and meet compliance requirements.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/aws-network-firewall-geographic-ip-filtering-launch/

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🔴 Improve your security posture with expanded Custom Org Policy

Administrators can use custom organization policies to set granular resource configurations in order to enhance security posture, address regulatory requirements, and increase operational efficiencies, all without impacting development velocity.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/announcing-expanded-custom-org-policy-portfolio-of-supported-products/

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🔶 A small digest of AWS news:

1️⃣ AWS Control Tower launches managed controls using declarative policies

These policies are a set of new optional controls that help you consistently enforce the desired configuration for a service.

2️⃣ AWS Config now supports a service-linked recorder

AWS Config added support for a service-linked recorder, a new type of AWS Config recorder that is managed by an AWS service and can record configuration data on service-specific resources, such as the new Amazon CloudWatch telemetry configurations audit.

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