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...
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...
