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Shrieking Like a Toddler

04.27.2023
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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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Episode Show Notes

Last week in security news: Dealing with Ransomware in the Cloud, Pen Testing AWS, How to prioritize IAM Access Analyzer findings, and more!

Links:

  • Last Week in AWS job board 
  • AWS had two (minor) Cross-Tenant Vulnerabilities within AWS App Runner.
  • Some company called Invictus has practical experience dealing with ransomware in the cloud
  • Chris Farris has a post on Pen Testing AWS.
  • Dark Reading posits that Security Is a Revenue Booster, Not a Cost Center.
  • An Attacker's Perspective on AWS Account IDs
  • How to prioritize IAM Access Analyzer findings 
  • Scale your authorization needs for Secrets Manager using ABAC with IAM Identity Center
  • Netchecks is a way of programmatically verifying your security controls.
  • I love CloudTrail Lake, and this repository of query samples makes it easier for me to use it.
  • IAMbic offers "GitOps for IAM."

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