The Security Benefits of Infrastructure as Code We have developed and delivered new ways to deliver infrastructure quickly and without these misconfigurations. Prevention is the only cure; we’ll talk about how you can implement this today.
Our Support For Cloudsplaining We’re proud to announce that Cloud Security Partners will be forking and maintaining Cloudsplaining, the popular cloud IAM tool. Open source and giving back to the community are very important to us and something we try to do often via contributions and free training! The cloud security community has
Gen AI Security: An Introduction and Resource Guide Like many industries, Artificial Intelligence has taken the security industry by storm. Security practitioners now are faced with the challenge of understanding new classifications of threats and new techniques of attack. Threat Actors are utilizing AI to improve their attacks, while also exploiting AI services. AI and Generative AI utilize
RDS Revealed? Time to Give It Some Shade! By: John Poulin At Cloud Security Partners, we have audited thousands of customer AWS accounts as part of our security reviews. Across our customers, roughly 5% of the AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) instances we analyze are publicly accessible. A general rule of thumb across the security industry is that
The Hidden Dangers of Using Terraform's Remote-Exec Provisioner Terraform is a powerful infrastructure as code tool that can support multi-cloud deployments. Terraform provides consistent and reliable deployments for cloud infrastructure. But as with every tool there are hidden dangers built-in we need to check for! The remote-exec provisioner in Terraform can be a valuable tool, providing the ability
Infrastructure as Code Security I was excited to have the opportunity to speak recently at Kernelcon and BSidesNYC about one of my favorite topics, infrastructure as code (IAC). Having helped multiple companies build IAC security programs, talking about what we've learned is always enjoyable. Companies moving to centralized and well-managed infrastructure as
Finding Strings Everywhere with Roles Anywhere While scrolling Twitter, I came across this tweet talking about the new AWS feature Roles Anywhere. I was messing around with the aws_signing_helper and got this panic. The trace path doesn't make me feel super confident about the security of their build process. Not that I