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Computers Checking Compliance Boxes

01.12.2023
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Corey is the Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, where he specializes in helping companies improve their AWS bills by making them smaller and less horrifying. He also hosts the "Screaming in the Cloud" and "AWS Morning Brief" podcasts; and curates "Last Week in AWS," a weekly newsletter summarizing the latest in AWS news, blogs, and tools, sprinkled with snark and thoughtful analysis in roughly equal measure.

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Computers Checking Compliance Boxes

Episode Summary

Last week in security news: Circle CI security alert, another Azure vulnerability, Amazon S3 Encrypts New Objects By Default, new tools. and more!

Episode Show Notes

This episode is sponsored in part by the Google for Startups Cloud Program

Links:

  • CircleCI came out with a security alert urging you to rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI.
  • Another bite at the craptastic LastPass breach response, this article parses their weak-sauce PR statement 
  • Over the holidays Slack had some private GitHub code repositories stolen.
  • ACSESSED is another Azure vulnerability
  • Amazon S3 Encrypts New Objects By Default 
  • Updated whitepaper available: AWS Security Incident Response Guide
  • iamfast analyzes your application code to generate a least-privilege IAM policy.
  • Wiz has come up with and open sourced PEACH, a tenant isolation framework for cloud applications.

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