The Most Underrated Service in GCP? It's Not What You Think. In the world of cloud security, we are obsessed with the new, the complex, and the cutting-edge. We talk about advanced threat intelligence feeds, sophisticated eBPF-based runtime security, and AI-powered anomaly detection. But what if the most...
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...
As businesses continue to shift their operations to the cloud, it's more important than ever to ensure that your data is secure. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a wide range of security tools to help protect your data and comply with regulatory requirements. In this article, we'...
This guide will walk you through setting up and implementing ChatGPT with AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway. ChatGPT is a powerful language model developed by OpenAI. We will start by providing an overview of ChatGPT and its capabilities. Followed by a detailed explanation of how to set up and...
This article will give you the latest news on AWS security updates, solutions, and other cool stuff published in December 2022. The newest edition of the "AWS Cloud Security Roundup" blog series is now available. Enjoy this article? Subscribe to receive the latest news about cloud security here...
Initially, I intended to write an article about the new RDS brute force protection. And researching the two new RDS GuardDuty findings CredentialAccess:RDS/ AnomalousBehavior.SuccessfulLogin and CredentialAccess:RDS/ AnomalousBehavior.FailedLogin. But even after hours of trial and error, I could not trigger the GuardDuty finding. This article is for...
In today's world of cloud computing, it is often necessary to process and transform large amounts of data in real-time. AWS Lambda is a service that allows you to run code in response to events. Such as uploading an object to an Amazon S3 bucket or requests to...
This article will give you the latest news on AWS security updates, solutions, and other cool stuff published in November 2022. The newest edition of the "AWS Cloud Security Roundup" blog series is now available. In late November the AWS re:invent in Las Vegas took place. Unfortunately,...
