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...
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 During Christmas, I had some extra time on my hands - a perfect opportunity to catch up on tech I’d been meaning to explore. A few colleagues had been discussing about Crossplane recently, and it got me curious. What is it really about? How does it fit into...
Introduction For a long time, I used service accounts and understood the security implications of working with them in GCP, but I never really took a deep dive into how they work. Like many developers, I relied on the abstraction provided by Google’s SDKs, which made it easy to...
Introduction Google Cloud offers a secure and efficient way to manage permissions and authentication through service accounts. These accounts are typically associated with GCP resources like Compute Engine instances, allowing them to securely access other Google Cloud services. But how can we abuse the service account credentials and use them...
