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🔶 Tenant portability: Move tenants across tiers in a SaaS application

Key considerations include maintaining consistent identities, staying compliant, reducing downtime and automating the process.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/architecture/tenant-portability-move-tenants-across-tiers-in-a-saas-application/

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🔶 Federated access to Amazon Athena using AWS IAM Identity Center

How to use the Athena JDBC driver to connect to Athena from third-party SQL client tools.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/federated-access-to-amazon-athena-using-aws-iam-identity-center/

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🔴 Why You Should Disable Your Unauthenticated GKE Read-only Ports

Google recommends organizations proactively disable their unauthenticated GKE read-only port 10255. Read more about why this is important and how to ensure all read-only ports are disabled.

https://orca.security/resources/blog/disable-unauthenticated-read-ports-gke-kubelet-servers/

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👩‍💻 Identify and prevent abuse of Managed Identities with Federated Credentials from unauthorized entities

Options to identify, monitor and avoid persistent access on Managed Identities privileges by adding federated credentials on User-Assigned Managed Identities (UAMI) from malicious or unauthorized entities.

https://www.cloud-architekt.net/identify-prevent-abuse-uami-fedcreds/

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🔶 Automate monitoring for your Amazon EKS cluster using CloudWatch Container Insights

How to implement Amazon EKS monitoring and alerting using a custom solution that automates EKS observability capabilities for dynamic performance metrics.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/infrastructure-and-automation/automate-monitoring-for-your-amazon-eks-cluster-using-cloudwatch-container-insights/

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🔶 Revealing the Inner Structure of AWS Session Tokens

A post sharing code and tools to programmatically analyze and modify AWS Session Tokens.

https://medium.com/@TalBeerySec/revealing-the-inner-structure-of-aws-session-tokens-a6c76469cba7

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🔴 Escalating Privileges in Google Cloud via Open Groups

How an attacker can escalate their privileges in Google Cloud by leveraging weak group join settings for groups that have been granted roles in GCP.

https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/cloud-pentesting/escalating-privileges-in-google-cloud-via-open-groups/

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🔶 Poisoning the SSM Command Document Well

A post disclosing risks in using SSM Command Docs for software distribution.

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

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👩‍💻 A deep dive into Entra ID Identity Protection for Incident Response

Identity Protection, and the associated Risky reports, are a quick and easy starting point to check if Microsoft has flagged any risky sign-ins, workloads, or users.

https://www.invictus-ir.com/news/a-deep-dive-into-entra-id-identity-protection-for-incident-response

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🔶 How to use the AWS Secrets Manager Agent

The Secrets Manager Agent is a client-side agent that allows you to standardize consumption of secrets from Secrets Manager across your AWS compute environments.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/how-to-use-the-aws-secrets-manager-agent/

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🔴 Announcing VPC Service Controls with private IPs to extend data exfiltration protection

VPC Service Controls (VPC-SC) creates isolation perimeters around cloud resources and networks in Google Cloud, helping you limit access to your sensitive data.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/announcing-vpc-service-controls-with-private-ips-to-extend-data-exfiltration-protection

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🔴 Zero Trust and BeyondCorp Google Cloud

Some sketchnotes on Zero Trust and BeyondCorp Google Cloud.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/zero-trust-and-beyondcorp-google-cloud

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👩‍💻 Azure Run Command Forensics

A forensic analysis of Azure Run Command activities, focusing on how to detect and investigate potential misuse.

https://www.cadosecurity.com/blog/azure-run-command-forensics

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🔴 ConfusedFunction: A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Impacting GCP Cloud Functions

Organizations that have used GCP's Cloud Functions could be impacted by a privilege escalation vulnerability discovered by Tenable and dubbed as ConfusedFunction.

https://www.tenable.com/blog/confusedfunction-a-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-impacting-gcp-cloud-functions

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🔶 Using S3 as a container registry

You can use S3 as a container registry. All it takes is to expose an S3 bucket through HTTP and to upload the image's files to specific paths.

https://ochagavia.nl/blog/using-s3-as-a-container-registry/

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🔶 A hard look at GuardDuty shortcomings

Is GuardDuty all you need for AWS threat detection? This post offers some results of adversarial simulation, a review of detection latency, and an analysis of projected S3 ransomware timing.

https://tracebit.com/blog/a-hard-look-at-guardduty-shortcomings

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🔶 Poor mans MFA for AWS Client VPN

The AWS Client VPN service is a common way to seamlessly connect users into internal networks. This post describes a low-tech, low-cost solution to better authenticate users using a second factor.

https://onecloudplease.com/blog/poor-mans-mfa-for-aws-client-vpn

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🔶 Thwacking DDOS with AWS WAF

AWS WAF is definitely not the best DDOS prevention tech on the market. But if you're ever in the seat and it's the tool you have, here's your guide.

https://ramimac.me/waf-ddos

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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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🔶 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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