🔴 Enhancing Cybersecurity with Security Command Center's Attack Path Simulations and Attack Exposure Scoring

Security Command Center (SCC) recently introduced two new features: Attack Path Simulation (APS) and Attack Exposure Scoring (AES).

https://medium.com/google-cloud/enhancing-cybersecurity-with-security-command-centers-attack-path-simulation-and-attack-path-46c527cd4927

(Use VPN to open from Russia)

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🔶 How to use multiple instances of AWS IAM Identity Center

You can now have two types of IAM Identity Center instances: organization instances and account instances.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/how-to-use-multiple-instances-of-aws-iam-identity-center/

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🔷 All the Small Things: Azure CLI Leakage and Problematic Usage Patterns

Post discussing the unintentional leakage of Azure Application Variables in GitHub build logs due to Azure CLI's default behavior.

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/prisma-cloud/secrets-leakage-user-error-azure-cli/

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🔶 Preventing Accidental Internet-Exposure of AWS Resources

Many AWS customers have suffered breaches due to exposing resources to the Internet by accident. This three-part series walks through different ways to mitigate that risk.

https://kevinhock.github.io/2023/11/26/preventing-accidental-internet-exposure-of-aws-resources-part-1-vpc.html

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🔴 Pwning Cloud Contexts, The Endgame

Slides from a Black Hat MEA 2023 talk discussing how a GitHub token led to the compromise of an entire GCP organization.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sVZohEgGKDkgwgVNzquNzSzKdLDMOFgAiiR78kcgBAw/edit#slide=id.g29a3b4d3924_0_137

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🔶 Deep dive into the new Amazon EKS Pod Identity feature

Earlier this week, AWS released a new feature, EKS Pod Identity, that aims to simplify granting AWS access to pods running in an EKS cluster. This post deep-dives into how this feature works, some elements that make it unique, and why you might consider using it.

https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/eks-pod-identity-deep-dive/

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🔶 How fast is CloudTrail today? Investigating CloudTrail delays using Athena

Investigating how long CloudTrail takes to deliver events in 2023.

https://tracebit.com/blog/2023/11/how-fast-is-cloudtrail-today-investigating-cloudtrail-delays-using-athena/

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🔶 Avoid accidental exposure of authenticated Amazon API Gateway resources

The article advises securing Amazon API Gateway by setting default authorizers and applying resource policies for IAM authentication, to prevent accidental exposure and enhance security through defense in depth.

https://www.wolfe.id.au/2023/11/12/avoid-accidental-exposure-of-authenticated-amazon-api-gateway-resources/

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🔴 Exploring a Critical Risk in Google Workspace's Domain-Wide Delegation Feature

A security risk discovered in the Google Cloud Platform domain-wide delegation feature allows a user to generate an access token to Google Workspace, granting unauthorized access to data and other key tools.

https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/critical-risk-in-google-workspace-delegation-feature/

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🔷 Microsoft Incident Response lessons on preventing cloud identity compromise

Different scenarios involving misconfigured hybrid identity setups that could lead to compromise of Microsoft Entra ID.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/12/05/microsoft-incident-response-lessons-on-preventing-cloud-identity-compromise/

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🔴 DevSecOps and CI/CD using Google Cloud Built-in Services

How to build a secure CI/CD pipeline using Google Cloud's built-in services using Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Artifact Registry, Binary Authorization and GKE.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/devsecops-and-cicd-using-google-cloud-built-in-services

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🔶 Zonal autoshift - Automatically shift your traffic away from Availability Zones when we detect potential issues

A new capability of Route 53 Application Recovery Controller that you can enable to automatically and safely shift your workload's traffic away from an Availability Zone when AWS identifies a potential failure affecting that Availability Zone and shift it back once the failure is resolved.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/aws/zonal-autoshift-automatically-shift-your-traffic-away-from-availability-zones-when-we-detect-potential-issues/

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🔴 Unauthenticated Access to GCP Dataproc Can Lead to Data Leak

A lack of security controls of the underlying Open Source Software (OSS) managed solution allows an attacker with knowledge of the Dataproc IP address to access it without any authentication.

https://orca.security/resources/blog/unauthenticated-access-to-google-cloud-dataproc/

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🔶 Cloud services as exfiltration mechanisms

This article outlines how as an adversary you can use an AWS service to exfiltrate data.

https://airwalkreply.com/cloud-services-as-exfiltration-mechanisms

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🔶 AWS Security Services Best Practices

Best practices for configuring AWS security services. From the AWS team.

https://aws.github.io/aws-security-services-best-practices/

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🔶🔷🔴 Introducing CloudSecGPT: Your Go-To AI for Cloud Security Insights

CloudSecGPT is a custom-built generative AI model that specializes in cloud security.

https://blog.marcolancini.it/2023/blog-cloudsecgpt/

(Use VPN to open from Russia)

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🔶 Quick Tip: Minimizing Terraformed SCPs

How to tackle character limits in SCPs.

https://ramimac.me/terraform-minimized-scps

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🔷 Securing AD CS: Microsoft Defender for Identity's Sensor Unveiled

Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) is commonly used in Active Directory environments to manage Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and it plays a critical role in instrumenting digital certificates.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-xdr-blog/securing-ad-cs-microsoft-defender-for-identity-s-sensor-unveiled/ba-p/3980265

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🔶 Governance at scale: Enforce permissions and compliance by using policy as code

How to automate Config and Control Tower checks.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/governance-at-scale-enforce-permissions-and-compliance-by-using-policy-as-code/

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🔴 Migrate from service account keys

An article that describes the process for migrating from service account keys to more secure authentication methods.

https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/migrate-from-service-account-keys

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🔴 Introducing Cloud SQL IAM group authentication

New IAM groups authentication in Cloud SQL simplifies granting/revoking access to database objects at scale.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/introducing-cloud-sql-iam-group-authentication/

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