Deconstructing Azure Access Management using RBAC
March 10, 2021Take a focused look at the basics of Azure RBAC (role based access control) -- the main mechanism in Azure for granting permissions to resources. Familiarize you with Azure AD identities and find out how to grant them access to your organization’s resources.
Keep Your IAM Users Close, Keep Your Third Parties Even Closer
January 28, 2021Technical and legal controls that you take for granted when managing cybersecurity policy within your organization are usually out of reach when a third party is compromised.
Auditing iam:PassRole: A Problematic Privilege Escalation Permission
January 13, 2021How to determine which identities need iam:PassRole to help enforce “use it or lose it” least privilege.
Cloud infrastructure is not immune from the SolarWinds Orion breach
December 23, 2020Organizations exposed to the SolarWinds breach must identify exposed credentials and rotate them asap.
The AWS Managed Policies Trap
December 20, 2020These policies are simultaneously appealing and dangerous. Here’s how to use automated analysis of environment configuration and activity logs to avoid getting caught in the trap.
Who Holds the Keys to the Kingdom?
November 15, 2020Take a closer look at sensitive AWS Resources:secret strings and keys used in AWS, learn about the Resources and access control mechanisms relevant to them, delve into the challenges of tracking the permissions granted to them, and see ways in which automating analysis of environment configuration and logs in AWS can help.
AWS Identity Federation and Least Privilege – Friends or Foes?
October 7, 2020Learn how to address the challenges in basic and advanced implementations of AWS federation.
Protect Applications and Data with Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM)
August 3, 2020Breaking down the hype around cloud infrastructure entitlements management.