Every development team knows the feeling of opening a vulnerability export on Monday morning and staring at a spreadsheet with 1,000 "CRITICAL" rows. The Product Owner dumps all the findings into the backlog and assigns them to developers for the next sprint. A backlog is not a...
Introduction During my time leading development teams, one of the most frustrating challenges we faced was dealing with the overwhelming number of security findings flooding in from various systems. They were rarely well-described, almost never prioritized, and often left us scratching our heads about their actual impact. Google’s Security...
Introduction As a developer working with AWS Lambda, I’ve always loved the idea of serverless computing - deploying code without worrying about managing servers. However, one challenge that frequently came up was handling Python dependencies in Lambda functions. Deploying a Lambda function with multiple dependencies can be cumbersome, especially...
Introduction Have you ever wondered how to scale your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) network while keeping it secure and efficient? If so, you're in the right place! In this blog post, we're going to explore the fascinating world of the GCP Hub and Spoke architecture and...
Introduction In the past, I have struggled to create custom findings in AWS GuardDuty or GCP Security Command Center (SCC). GCP SCC has an amazing feature to create custom findings via the API. This feature is quite hidden in the documentation, but in this article, we will explore the different...
Introduction In the current digital landscape, businesses are faced with an increasing number of cybersecurity threats. It is crucial to have robust security measures in place to protect sensitive data and maintain business continuity. One solution that can help is the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Cloud Intrusion Detection System (IDS)...
Introduction AWS S3 is a great storage platform for hosting data. However, it's also a target for malicious intruders. 🎯 Most applications allow the user to upload their own data on S3 buckets. For example, to store images 📷, videos 📹, or any other custom data. How can you safeguard your...
Software development is a dynamic process that involves multiple stages, from writing code to testing and deployment. Code quality plays a crucial role in software development, as it determines the overall performance and reliability of the software. Poor code quality can lead to bugs, crashes, and security vulnerabilities. SonarQube is...
The bigger our cloud environments are getting, the harder it is to manage all security alerts and vulnerabilities of our workloads and services. For this purpose, we can utilize a tool called Security information and event management (SIEM), which provide real-time analysis of security alerts. AWS offers the service OpenSearch...
Amazon announced GuardDuty during the AWS re:invent 2017 to protect AWS accounts against a wide variety of attacks. Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors malicious activity and unauthorized behavior to protect your Amazon Web Services accounts, workloads, and data stored in Amazon S3. While using...
Every development team knows the feeling of opening a vulnerability export on Monday morning and staring at a spreadsheet with 1,000 "CRITICAL" rows. The Product Owner dumps all the findings into the backlog and assigns them to developers for the next sprint. A backlog is not a...
If you only use Wiz to browse issues in the console, you probably never think about internal Control IDs. You search by name, filter by severity, and move on with your day. Then you start wiring up response workflows or automation. Suppose you are building out auto-remediations in the Wiz...
Introduction Kubernetes clusters generate an obscene amount of noise. Between application stacks dumping debug output, ingress controllers logging every health check, and internal cluster chatter, your logging bill is probably high enough already. Most of it is low-value noise and we dont really care about it. Security logs are more...
Three months ago I predicted Security Command Center was heading into maintenance mode. I said Wiz would absorb its multicloud capabilities. Now Security Command Center Enterprise tier shuts down on May 21, 2027. Organizations on Enterprise move automatically to the Premium tier. What Enterprise Actually Offered SCC Enterprise was Google&...
The Shift in Cryptography The foundation of internet security rests on specific mathematical assumptions - problems that are computationally infeasible for classical computers to solve. However, the theoretical boundaries of computing are expanding rapidly. Quantum computers represent a shift that will eventually make our current asymmetric encryption methods obsolete. Powerful...
Introduction Last month I wrote about Google's plans to acquire Wiz. I had concerns about how they would integrate the platforms. The acquisition closed on March 11, 2026. That was fast. Now I am seeing the first signs of integration. Some are exciting. Some are concerning. Security Command...
