Archive of posts with category 'Security'
IAM Permission Boundaries: Delegating Safely Without Losing Control
The problem: your application team needs to create IAM roles for their Lambda functions and ECS tasks. You can give them iam:CreateRole and related permissions, but then they can create...
IAM Cross-Account Roles: Secure Multi-Account Access on AWS
The standard AWS multi-account setup has a tools account for CI/CD, separate accounts for dev/staging/prod, a security audit account, and maybe a shared services account for internal tooling. Getting code...
EKS RBAC and Security: Access Entries, Pod Identity, and Pod Security Standards
The aws-auth ConfigMap was never a good idea. It’s a plain Kubernetes ConfigMap in the kube-system namespace — editable by anyone with cluster-admin, no audit trail, no AWS-native access controls,...
AWS WAF v2: Rate Limiting, Bot Control, and Custom Rules
AWS WAF v2 launched in 2019 and the original WAF Classic is end-of-life — migration ended November 2024. If you’re still on Classic, those web ACLs are frozen. This guide...
AWS SSM Session Manager: Kill Your Bastion Hosts
Every bastion host in your architecture is a maintenance burden and an attack surface. You need to keep the AMI patched, manage SSH keys across the team, control security group...
AWS Security Hub: Unified Security Posture Management
The average AWS account running production workloads generates findings from at least four different security services: GuardDuty for threat detection, Inspector for vulnerability scanning, Config for compliance drift, and IAM...
AWS Organizations and Control Tower: Multi-Account Governance in Practice
Most AWS teams start with one account. They create IAM users, attach policies, and eventually have a mess of permissions nobody fully understands. Then they start a second account for...
AWS Macie: Find PII in S3 Before Regulators Do
When a fintech company discovered in late 2023 that 14 months of customer transaction exports — including names, account numbers, and partial SSNs — had been sitting in a public...
AWS Inspector v2: Continuous Vulnerability Scanning for EC2, ECR, and Lambda
Inspector Classic (v1) required you to schedule scans, install an agent manually, and remember to run assessments after deployments. Inspector v2, launched in November 2021, works differently. Enable it once...
AWS IAM Roles vs Policies: The Complete Guide
A tweet with 52,894 impressions last September put it plainly: “master IAM roles and policies” was the single skill that separated AWS beginners from people who could actually build in...
AWS IAM Identity Center: The Right Way to Manage SSO and Multi-Account Access
AWS renamed AWS Single Sign-On to IAM Identity Center in 2022, which confused a lot of people who were still searching for “AWS SSO” in the console. The name changed;...
AWS GuardDuty: Threat Detection That Actually Works
In 2022, a researcher at Lacework published an analysis of 500 AWS accounts across their customer base. The most common finding was cryptocurrency mining workloads running on EC2 instances that...
AWS CloudTrail Deep Dive: Audit Logging and Security Monitoring
Every API call made to AWS — from the console, CLI, SDK, or another service — generates a CloudTrail event. Who created that security group rule? When was that IAM...
AWS API Gateway + WAF + Nginx: Zero Trust API Security in 2026
Something I tell every new team I work with: stop assuming your internal network is safe. That assumption is how you end up with a bad time. In 2026, 8.4...
3 Benefits of Regular Data Security Audits for Businesses
Businesses rely on technology for most operations, so protecting sensitive data from breaches is essential. Without proper safeguards, cyber criminals can exploit weaknesses in your systems.
Unleashing the Power of AI & ML in Enhancing Cloud Security
As cloud usage grows, data spreads across servers everywhere. This creates a real problem: traditional security tools cannot keep up with cybercriminals who move fast and adapt faster. AI and...
Introduction to DevSecOps with GitLab CI/CD
In software development, security and efficiency matter. DevOps has changed how teams build, test, and deploy software, enabling faster delivery and collaboration between development and operations. However, with evolving security...
The Ultimate Guide to Ensure Cybersecurity for Small Businesses
When you start your business, there are several things to consider so you don’t run out of resources. One important aspect, no matter how big or small your business is,...
Securing Your S3 Buckets with Powerful Monitoring Tools
Monitor your S3 bucket access and actions with CloudTrail, Amazon S3 server access logs, and CloudWatch Logs. Get visibility into potential security risks and keep your S3 usage secure. #CloudSecurity...
Server-Side Encryption on Amazon S3: A Comprehensive Guide
If you are using Amazon S3, server-side encryption is worth understanding. It adds a layer of protection for your data at rest, and AWS makes it relatively painless to set...
