---
title: "The Mental Breakdown of Auto-Remediation"
id: "12844"
type: "podcast"
slug: "the-mental-breakdown-of-auto-remediation"
published_at: "2022-07-27T14:30:00+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-05-17T00:04:50+00:00"
url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/the-mental-breakdown-of-auto-remediation/"
markdown_url: "https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/last-week-in-aws-podcast/the-mental-breakdown-of-auto-remediation.md"
taxonomy_shows:
  - "Last Week In AWS Podcast"
---

About the Author 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.

[https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-morning-brief/id1466344305](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-morning-brief/id1466344305)

[https://overcast.fm/itunes1466344305/aws-morning-brief](https://overcast.fm/itunes1466344305/aws-morning-brief)

[https://pca.st/AKs0](https://pca.st/AKs0)

[https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/2382583](https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/2382583)

[https://open.spotify.com/show/3A04JNrNAcZMvn8cvDWpWU](https://open.spotify.com/show/3A04JNrNAcZMvn8cvDWpWU)

[https://feeds.transistor.fm/aws-morning-brief](https://feeds.transistor.fm/aws-morning-brief)

## Episode Summary

Last week in security news: The Nigerian government scores this week's S3 Bucket Negligence Award, new air-gap attack uses SATA cable as an antenna to transfer radio signals, you can use Security Hub custom actions to remediate S3 resources based on Macie discovery results, but do you really want to? And More!

## Episode Show Notes & Transcript

**Links:**

- The Nigerian government scores this week's [S3 Bucket Negligence Award](https://gazettengr.com/nigerian-agency-data-breach-exposes-75000-personal-details-of-citizens-online/)
- [New Air-Gap Attack Uses SATA Cable as an Antenna to Transfer Radio Signals](https://thehackernews.com/2022/07/new-air-gap-attack-uses-sata-cable-as.html?m=1)
- [Automatically block suspicious DNS activity with Amazon GuardDuty and Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/automatically-block-suspicious-dns-activity-with-amazon-guardduty-and-route-53-resolver-dns-firewall/)
- [Use Security Hub custom actions to remediate S3 resources based on Macie discovery results](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/use-security-hub-custom-actions-to-remediate-s3-resources-based-on-macie-discovery-results/)
- There has been significant improvement to the [AWS IAM documentation](https://github.com/awsdocs/iam-user-guide/commit/9d319cd465e386ff0c4bf404279694d85a9f623e) around IAM best practices.
- Artillery lets you use Lambdas for open source [load testing](https://docs-nine-inky.vercel.app/blog/open-source-distributed-load-testing-with-lambda) .

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