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...
Introduction I often see companies struggle with installing security agents on their virtual machines fleets. These agents could be Wazuh, Splunk, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE), or others. Setting them up manually or with tools like Ansible takes a lot of time and effort. It also doesn’t fully match...
Introduction Let’s be real - when you’re working in a smaller company or with a lean cloud team, you don’t always have a full-blown CNAPP solution in place. A lot of cloud engineers I meet just want to keep things manageable: they’re already routing logs to...
The Challenge of Security Visibility in the Past Back in the day, we followed best practices to configure our services securely. However, there was always the question: Did we actually configure everything correctly? Even if we used tools to identify misconfigurations, they rarely provided a comprehensive view across all services,...
Introduction In AWS, roles have become an essential part of securely granting permissions to services without the need for manual key management. Traditionally, in legacy systems or on-premises environments, services like virtual machines would rely on static access keys or service accounts for authentication. But with AWS roles were introduced...
Introduction Imagine you’re responsible for securing an AWS environment with dozens or even hundreds of accounts. Each account has its own users, permissions, and workloads. One day, you find out that a compromised IAM key in a sandbox account was used to exfiltrate data from an S3 bucket. The...
Introduction When managing an AWS Organization, you often need to execute tasks across multiple AWS accounts. Instead of manually configuring credentials for each account, AWS provides cross-account IAM roles that allow services in one account (such as a Lambda function in the central account) to assume a role in another...
