How to protect sensitive data for its entire lifecycle in AWS
Fall 2020 PCI DSS report now available with eight additional services in scope

I made a thing. Assume AWS IAM roles from GitHub Actions. Now I can use the best CI solution with the best cloud and not have to create IAM users.
The role sessions are even tagged with repo, SHA, run numbers, etc for much saner CloudTrail trawling.
github.com/glassechidna/a…



So last night I passed the AWS Machine Learning - Specialty exam 😃
That was a tough one! 😅
For anyone interested in AI/ML I would encourage you to study for it 📚 I learnt a ton and liked how a large % of the exam was focused on general ML knowledge vs the AWS services.



☁️ Security Logging in Cloud Environments
@lancinimarco: Designing a state of the art multi-account security-related logging platform
Covers:
* CloudTrail, CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Config
* Collecting logs
* Storage & audit trail
* Monitoring & alerting
marcolancini.it/2021/blog-secu…




Thursday night: Wine 🍷 and PR-FAQing 📄Me thinks this will make for a pretty awesome doc.



In a new blog post we review downloading and exploring EBS snapshots using the EBS Direct API's. Snapshot download isn't logged in CloudTrail, making this a difficult attack to detect. bit.ly/3qXWgAz



🤬 Damn Vulnerable @GraphQL App by Dolev Farhi
Get hands-on experience exploiting a GraphQL app, including:
* Denial-of-service
* Info disclosure
* Code execution
* Injection
* Authorization bypass
* and more
#bugbountytips
github.com/dolevf/Damn-Vu…



Spending my Saturday night reviewing CFP submissions for the @CloudNativeFdn Cloud Native Security Day 2021. There's still time to register! events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-native-s…



Just spent 30mins troubleshooting why aws-cdk was not installing properly. Turns out I was installing aws-sdk 🤦♂️😂 #Fridays



"When seconds matter, CloudTrail takes minutes"

CloudTrail could be a database too. I would think that the ~20 minute delay between "thing happens" and "it shows up in the logs" would be a blocker, but people still use Bitcoin so...



This is a great diagram showing how the various AWS security services interact marcolancini.it/2021/blog-secu… thanks @lancinimarco, this belongs in the official docs!




If you're using Amazon Cognito, you should watch this short (but great) summary of how to do it securely: youtube.com/watch?v=QDR-pX…
Slowly working my way through the #AWS re:Invent 2020 catalogue, let me know if you've got recommendations!



Describe instances, sns topics, sqs, cloudwatch etc. across all AWS regions from the command line.
There are definitely some times that you want to query across all regions in the CLI. I always have done this in the past by piping together a bash loop and some jq like this:
for region in `aws ec2 describe-regions --output text | cut -f4`
do
echo -e "\nListing …
Has anyone here worked for an AWS (or other "cloud") consultancy? What's it like?
Hello,
Early on in my career I had a job as an IT consultant (not AWS related).
I enjoyed it because:
- Flow of projects ensured things never got too dull
- Lots of different experience puts your career trajectory "on steroids"
- Work with some smart, hardworking people
- Experience with both hard …
What AWS training would be most relevant to someone in the C-suite?
Hi everyone,
I have the opportunity to take training in Cyber and I'm wondering - what cloud-related training would be most ideal for someone in a senior leadership / c-suite role?
Thanks in advance!
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