🔶 Tales from the cloud trenches: Raiding for AWS vaults, buckets and secrets

Post exploring a campaign targeting AWS Secrets Manager, AWS S3 and AWS S3 Glacier.

https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/tales-from-the-cloud-trenches-raiding-for-vaults-buckets-secrets/

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🔴 The Unauditable, Unmanageable HMAC Keys in Google Cloud

This blog outlines three vulnerabilities surfaced from how Google Cloud handles user-associated HMAC keys.

https://www.vectra.ai/blog/working-as-intended-the-unauditable-unmanageable-keys-in-google-cloud

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🔶 How to create a pipeline for hardening Amazon EKS nodes and automate updates

How to enhance the security of managed node groups using a CIS Amazon Linux benchmark for Amazon Linux 2 and Amazon Linux 2023.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/how-to-create-a-pipeline-for-hardening-amazon-eks-nodes-and-automate-updates/

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🔶 SaaS tenant isolation with ABAC using AWS STS support for tags in JWT

An alternative approach to implement tenant isolation with ABAC by using the AWS STS AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity API operation and https://aws.amazon.com/tags claim in a JSON Web Token (JWT).

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/saas-tenant-isolation-with-abac-using-aws-sts-support-for-tags-in-jwt/

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🔶 AWS OIDC Provider Enumeration

A post expanding on Nick Frichette's discovery of enumerable OIDC providers in AWS using the known_aws_accounts dataset.

https://ramimac.me/oidc-provider-enum

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🔶 Publicly Exposed AWS SSM Command Documents

An analysis of the thousands of public SSM Command documents, including identification of secret leakage.

https://ramimac.me/ssm-command-docs

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🔴 New Cloud KMS Autokey can help encrypt your resources quickly and efficiently

Cloud KMS Autokey incorporates recommended practices that can significantly reduce the toil associated with managing your own encryption keys.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-kms-autokey-can-help-you-encrypt-resources-quickly-and-efficiently/

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🔶 Use private key JWT authentication between Amazon Cognito user pools and an OIDC IdP

By redirecting the IdP token endpoint in the Cognito user pool's external OIDC IdP configuration to a route in an API Gateway, you can use Lambda functions to customize the request flow between Cognito and the IdP.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/use-private-key-jwt-authentication-between-amazon-cognito-user-pools-and-an-oidc-idp/

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🔶 History of Amazon Web Services

A page collecting the history of AWS service announcements and releases.

https://www.awsgeek.com/AWS-History/

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🔴 Announcing expanded Sensitive Data Protection for Cloud Storage

GCP's Sensitive Data Protection (SDP) discovery service now supports Cloud Storage, joining BigQuery, BigLake, and Cloud SQL.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/announcing-expanded-sensitive-data-protection-for-cloud-storage

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🔶 Implement an early feedback loop with AWS developer tools to shift security left

How to use AWS CodeCommit to securely host Git repositories, AWS CodePipeline to automate continuous delivery pipelines, AWS CodeBuild to build and test code, and Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer to detect potential code defects.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/implement-an-early-feedback-loop-with-aws-developer-tools-to-shift-security-left/

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🔶 Access AWS services programmatically using trusted identity propagation

With the introduction of trusted identity propagation, applications can now propagate a user's workforce identity from their identity provider (IdP) to applications running in AWS and to storage services backing those applications, such as S3 or Glue.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/access-aws-services-programmatically-using-trusted-identity-propagation/

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🔶 Moving AWS Accounts and OUs Within An Organization - Not So Simple!

This post explores the potential implications of moving an AWS account or OU to another OU within the same Organization, including impacts to SCP policy inheritance, CloudFormation StackSet deployments, IAM policy conditions, RAM shares, and Control Tower enrollments.

https://blog.wut.dev/2024/07/05/moving-aws-accounts-within-organization.html

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🔶 Delete unused AMIs using the new 'LastLaunchedTime' attribute

Reduce your AWS costs by (more) safely deleting unused AMIs.

https://st-g.de/2024/05/delete-unused-amis

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🔴 IAM so lost: A guide to identity in Google Cloud

An entry-level post demystifying two foundational IAM access control principles: the concepts of least privilege and separation of duties.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/scaling-the-iam-mountain-an-in-depth-guide-to-identity-in-google-cloud/

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🔶 Strategies for achieving least privilege at scale - Part 1

This blog post walked through the first five (of nine) strategies for achieving least privilege at scale.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/strategies-for-achieving-least-privilege-at-scale-part-1/

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🔶 Strategies for achieving least privilege at scale - Part 2

This second post continues to look at the remaining four strategies and related mental models for scaling least privilege across your organization.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/strategies-for-achieving-least-privilege-at-scale-part-2/

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🔶 Building the foundations: A defender's guide to AWS Bedrock

This blog focuses on AWS Bedrock and its relevant telemetry streams: CloudTrail management and data events, model invocation telemetry and endpoint telemetry.

https://www.sumologic.com/blog/defenders-guide-to-aws-bedrock/

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