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AWS IAM Recon

This post will focus on tools for performing IAM permission enumeration on AWS accounts. Custom, poorly written IAM roles and policies are some of the most common misconfigurations in regards to AWS architecture. That said, we'll discuss various resources that can help you breathe easier. First is MAMIP, a simple

AWS EKS ASAP

EKS is a powerful CaaS solution for hosting k8s in AWS. Though setting up a cluster can be a convoluted task, this quick point of reference will help you strap on those elastic pants and get deploying. We'll first dive into what deploying EKS looks like and what additional resources

AWS Threat Detection & IR

AWS Threat Detection & IR

Re:Inforce 2021 Presentation Notes The “Auto-Enable” in Organizations from a root account enables services below if enabled on new and existing member accounts. A brief touchpoint on each AWS security related service for Threat Detection & IR is provided below. GuardDuty - Uses ML to present security alerts for your

ssh... Quiet Down Now

ssh... Quiet Down Now

As we all know AWS provides great solutions to a vast number of common technical problems. One such solutions excited me as a Security focused AWS Architect recently, and I wanted to share this finding aka Session Manager [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/session-manager-getting-started.html] . This feature

☁️ Compliance Pt. I

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☁️ Compliance Pt. I

This post is about my experience while covering the infamous cloud shared responsibility model. I'm writing this because it's 2021, and people still often assume because they're utilizing a IaaS/PaaS offering it's secure! Well, I'm here to assure you there's a little thing called the shared responsibility model that

Sailing the AWS IaC Seas

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Sailing the AWS IaC Seas

Infrastructure as Code is an incredibly valuable solution with a ton of applicable use cases in modern cloud practices. Often times I'm approached to build out solutions from scratch or from existing cloud environments using either CloudFormation (AWS IaC) or Terraform. Both these solutions present benefits in multiple ways and