🔴 Securing Cloud Run Deployments with Least Privilege Access

How to protect your Cloud Run deployments by implementing least privilege access for Cloud Run services and service consumers.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/securing-cloud-run-deployments-with-least-privilege-access

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🔶 automated-ci-pipeline-creation

Creation of Continuous Integration pipelines dynamically using an AWS Step Function based approach to create standardised pipelines for an organisation.

https://github.com/aws-samples/automated-ci-pipeline-creation

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🔴 How Attackers Can Exploit GCP's Multicloud Workload Solution

A deep dive into the inner workings of GCP Workload Identity Federation, taking a look at risks and how to avoid misconfigurations.

https://ermetic.com/blog/gcp/how-attackers-can-exploit-gcps-multicloud-workload-solution

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🔶🔴 Five Things You Need to Know About Malware on Storage Buckets

An overview of malware in cloud storage buckets and mitigation best practices.

https://orca.security/resources/blog/the-risks-of-malware-in-storage-buckets

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🔶 AWS EC2 IMDS - What You Need to Know

A technical review of IMDSv2.

https://ermetic.com/blog/aws/aws-ec2-imds-what-you-need-to-know

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🔶 staticwebsite-cli

This CLI tool makes it easy to deploy a static website to AWS. It builds and hosts the website, sets up a CDN and DNS, and provisions an SSL certificate.

https://github.com/awslabs/staticwebsite-cli

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🔷 Preview support for Kata VM Isolated Containers on AKS for Pod Sandboxing

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports pod sandboxing in preview in all Azure regions on a subset of Azure VM Sizes that support Nested Virtualization.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/preview-support-for-kata-vm-isolated-containers-on-aks-for-pod/ba-p/3751557

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🔴 Google Cloud Platform Exfiltration: A Threat Hunting Guide

Some security gaps that every organization using GCP should be aware of in order to protect itself from data exfiltration.

https://www.mitiga.io/blog/google-cloud-platform-exfiltration-a-threat-hunting-guide

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🔷 Pivoting with Azure Automation Account Connections

How Automation Accounts handle authenticating as other accounts within a runbook, and how to abuse those authentication connections to pivot to other Azure resources.

https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical/cloud-penetration-testing/azure-automation-account-connections

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🔶 Understanding the Integration Between KMS and Secrets Manager on AWS

Post covering the integration between KMS and Secrets Manager on AWS, to better understand how they work.

https://blog.lightspin.io/understanding-the-integration-between-kms-and-secrets-manager-on-aws

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🔶 A New Incentive for Using AWS VPC Endpoints

If you haven't been using VPC endpoints until now, AWS's two new condition keys should make you consider doing so.

https://ermetic.com/blog/aws/a-new-incentive-for-using-aws-vpc-endpoints

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🔶 Reducing Attack Surface with AWS Allowlisting

A detailed look at implementing Region and Service allowlisting in AWS.

https://ramimac.me/aws-allowlisting

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🔴 Monitoring Kubernetes Clusters on GKE

A hands-on guide to monitoring and logging at different layers in the GKE stack.

https://medium.com/google-cloud/gke-monitoring-84170ea44833

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🔶 Passwordless Authentication made easy with Cognito

A Step-by-Step Guide, including working demo and complete source code for both frontend and backend.

https://theburningmonk.com/2023/03/passwordless-authentication-made-easy-with-cognito-a-step-by-step-guide

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🔶 The Many Ways to Access DynamoDB

Post discussing the many ways to restrict access to a DynamoDB instance at both a framework and implementation level, utilizing patterns and tools such as RBAC, IAM, Terraform.

https://blog.symops.com/2023/03/10/access-dynamodb

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🔷 Protect against cyberattacks with the new Azure Firewall Basic

Azure announced the general availability of Azure Firewall Basic, a new SKU of Azure Firewall built for SMBs.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/protect-against-cyberattacks-with-the-new-azure-firewall-basic

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🔴 Improve security posture with time bound session length

Session length is a configuration parameter that administrators can set to control how long users can access Google Cloud without having to reauthenticate.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/improve-security-posture-with-time-bound-session-length

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🔶 Bypassing CloudTrail in AWS Service Catalog, and Other Logging Research

Public disclosure of a CloudTrail bypass in AWS Service Catalog and other logging research.

https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/bypass-cloudtrail-aws-service-catalog-and-other

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🔷 Escalating Privileges with Azure Function Apps

Undocumented APIs used by the Azure Function Apps Portal menu allowed for arbitrary file reads on the Function App containers.

https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical/cloud-penetration-testing/azure-function-apps/

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🔶 Mitigating SSRF in 2023

Article reviewing the different ways of triggering SSRF and discussing which mitigation techniques are most effective.

https://blog.includesecurity.com/2023/03/mitigating-ssrf-in-2023

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🔶 Implementing Magic Links with Amazon Cognito: A Step-by-Step Guide

A popular passwordless authentication method is magic links. Although this is not something that Cognito supports out of the box, it can be implemented using its Lambda hooks.

https://theburningmonk.com/2023/03/implementing-magic-links-with-amazon-cognito-a-step-by-step-guide

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