Release Date: 24/07/2022 | Issue: 147

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This week's articles

The Kubernetes Networking Guide #explain, #kubernetes

The purpose of this website is to provide an overview of various Kubernetes networking components with a specific focus on exactly how they implement the required functionality.

Azure's Security Vulnerabilities Are Out of Control #attack, #azure

Azure's multiple security vulnerabilities are highly concerning, for both customer data and the cloud's reputation. It's time we put public pressure on Azure.

Abusing the Replicator: Silently Exfiltrating Data #attack, #aws

A comprehensive backup strategy is a cornerstone of any DR plan. But how would you distinguish between legitimate backup activity and malicious data exfiltration?

User and workload identities in Kubernetes #explain, #iam, #kubernetes

Article explaining how users and workloads can authenticate with the Kubernetes API server.

Minimal Container Images: Towards a More Secure Future #build, #containers

This post walks through the typical approaches in this space: minimal distributions, scratch and distroless.

2022 Argo external security audit: Lessons learned #attack, #ci/cd, #containers

Twenty-six issues were identified: seven in Argo CD, six in Argo Workflows, and thirteen in Argo Events. If you are curious, you can read the full report.

Tools

Build, sign, and compute the SBOM of a container image

A reusable Github Action workflow that: builds a container image, scans it with Trivy, pushes it to ECR, signs it with cosign, and computes its SBOM with Syft.

PingCastleCloud

Ping Castle Cloud is a tool designed to assess quickly the AzureAD security level with a methodology based on risk assessment and a maturity framework.

setup-opa

Sets up Open Policy Agent CLI in your GitHub Actions workflow.

cert-controller

The purpose of the Certificate Controller library is to provide an easy way for controller authors to bootstrap webhooks while making it possible for users to use more customizable projects like cert-manager.

CloudSecDocs

Sigstore

A cheatsheet describing Sigstore's components, use cases, functioning, and implementation.

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From the cloud providers

Best Practices for AWS Organizations Service Control Policies in a Multi-Account Environment

How you can plan your organization based on AWS best practices with recommended SCPs.

Automatically block suspicious DNS activity with Amazon GuardDuty and Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall

How to use Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall to automatically respond to suspicious DNS queries that are detected by Amazon GuardDuty within your AWS environment.

AWS Lambda announces support for Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

AWS Lambda announces support for attribute-based access control (ABAC) for API actions that use Lambda function as the required resource.

Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud DLP) Overview

A sketchnote on GCP DLP.

Using Cloud Bigtable with IAM Conditions and Tags

Learn about limiting team members' access to Bigtable resources including more advanced techniques like conditional permissions.

How to overcome 5 common SecOps challenges

Here are 5 common issues that many SecOps teams struggle with, and how to fix them.

Microsoft open sources its software bill of materials (SBOM) generation tool

Salus is a general purpose, enterprise-proven, build-time SBOM generator. It works across platforms including Windows, Linux, and Mac, and uses the standard Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) format.

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