🔴 Introducing BigQuery metastore, a unified metadata service with Apache Iceberg support

BigQuery metastore is a highly scalable runtime metadata service that works with multiple engines, for example, BigQuery, Apache Spark, Apache Hive and Apache Flink, and supports the open Apache Iceberg table format.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/introducing-bigquery-metastore-fully-managed-metadata-service/

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🔴 Unifying Your Cloud Defenses: Security Command Center & Cloud NGFW Enterprise

The article discusses the integration of Google Cloud's Security Command Center (SCC) and Cloud Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), by combining threat detection from NGFW with SCC's automation and response features.

https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Community-Blog/Unifying-Your-Cloud-Defenses-Security-Command-Center-amp-Cloud/ba-p/843202

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🔶 Safeguard your generative AI workloads from prompt injections

This blog post provides an overview of prompt injection risks in generative AI applications and outlines effective strategies for mitigating these risks on Bedrock.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/safeguard-your-generative-ai-workloads-from-prompt-injections/

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🔴 New to Google SecOps: An Introduction to Native Dashboards

An overview of the newly launched dashboarding capabilities within Google SecOps, enabling users to create custom dashboards using statistical search syntax.

https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Community-Blog/New-to-Google-SecOps-An-Introduction-to-Native-Dashboards/ba-p/856924

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🔶 AWS EKS Access Management & Permissions

This post explores the following AWS EKS technologies, and applies them to the context of a real scenario: aws-auth (2018), IRSA (IAM Roles for Service Accounts) (2019), EKS Pod Identities (2023), and EKS Cluster Access Management (2023).

https://akingscote.co.uk/posts/aws-eks-access-management/

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🔴 Introducing Workload Manager custom rules

With new Workload Manager custom rules, you can validate your Google Cloud deployments against best practices to help ensure they are compliant.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-workload-manager-custom-rules/

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🔶 Testing and evaluating GuardDuty detections

Deep dive into an open source tool for testing GuardDuty findings.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/testing-and-evaluating-guardduty-detections/

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🔶 AWS Firewall Manager retrofitting: Harmonizing central security with application team flexibility

Post talking about the benefits of retrofitting and how you can use this feature to allow Firewall Manager to manage existing web ACLs.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/aws-firewall-manager-retrofitting-harmonizing-central-security-with-application-team-flexibility/

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🔶 CopyObjection: Fending off ransomware in AWS

In a compromised AWS environment, adversaries can copy S3 objects, encrypt them, and prevent the victim from recovering the encryption keys.

https://redcanary.com/blog/incident-response/aws-ransomware/

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🔶 RogueOIDC: AWS Persistence and Evasion through attacker-controlled OIDC Identity Provider

This research shows what an attacker can achieve after creating a malicious OIDC identity provider in AWS and how they can do it. The article presents novel techniques and tools for persistence and evasion.

https://www.offensai.com/blog/rogueoidc-aws-persistence-and-evasion-through-attacker-controlled-oidc-identity-provider

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🔶 How Adversaries Exploit Unmonitored Cloud Regions to Evade Detection

This blog explores how unused cloud regions can be abused, the tools that enable such exploits, and strategies to mitigate these risks.

https://permiso.io/blog/how-threat-actors-leverage-unsupported-cloud-regions

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🔶 Implement effective data authorization mechanisms to secure your data used in generative AI applications - part 2

Depending on where the data sits as part of the generative AI application, you will need to use different implementations of data authorization, and there isn't a one-size-fits-all solution.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/implement-effective-data-authorization-mechanisms-to-secure-your-data-used-in-generative-ai-applications-part-2/

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🔶 terraform-aws-vulne-soldier

This Terraform module consists of the configuration for automating the remediation of AWS EC2 vulnerabilities using AWS Inspector findings.

https://github.com/iKnowJavaScript/terraform-aws-vulne-soldier

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🔶 whoAMI: A cloud image name confusion attack

Post detailing the discovery and impact of the whoAMI cloud image name confusion attack, which could allow attackers to execute code within AWS accounts due to a vulnerable pattern in AMI retrieval.

https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/whoami-a-cloud-image-name-confusion-attack/

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🔶 AWS Tightens the Reins: New AWS SaaS Marketplace Rules Will Impact Your Commitments

AWS has announced new rules for its SaaS Marketplace that will significantly affect how customers meet their spend commitments.

https://www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/new-aws-marketplace-rules/

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🔶 Announcing ASCP integration with Pod Identity: Enhanced security for secrets management in Amazon EKS

The integration of ASCP with Pod Identity marks a significant step forward in secrets management for Amazon EKS. It offers enhanced security, simplified configuration, and improved operations.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/announcing-ascp-integration-with-pod-identity-enhanced-security-for-secrets-management-in-amazon-eks/

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🔴 jit-groups

JIT Groups is an open source application that lets you implement secure, self-service access management for Google Cloud using groups.

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/jit-groups

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🔶 The Cat Flap - How to really Purrsist in AWS Accounts

A playful guide to creating covert backdoors in AWS accounts, specifically using the AWSControlTowerExecution role.

https://rootcat.de/blog/thecatflap/

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🔶 Abusing AWS Serverless Image Handler

The AWS solution "Dynamic Image Transformation for Amazon CloudFront", previously known as "AWS Serverless Image Handler", contains a configuration weakness where the role associated with the Lambda does not constrain which buckets can be accessed. The environment variable can be set to a wildcard allowing access to any bucket.

https://www.o3c.no/knowledge/abusing-aws-serverless-image-handler

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