Release Date: 12/03/2023 | Issue: 178
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How Automation Accounts handle authenticating as other accounts within a runbook, and how to abuse those authentication connections to pivot to other Azure resources.
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HashiCorp Vault 1.13 brings enhancements to team workflows, integrations, and visibility.
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The Cloud Security Workflow Handbook The Wiz research team surveyed security orgs at hyper-scaling enterprises to uncover how they’re adapting in 2023+. They packed their best-practices, frameworks, and templates into this playbook including:
A breakdown of the three pillars of the modern cloud security operating model best-in-class orgs are moving to.
A 4-step roadmap used by the fastest-growing companies to adapt to the new threat landscape.
Plus: Goals and KPI templates for your team to track based on maturity stage presented in a convenient cheat sheet.
APE takes all of your AWS IAM policies attached to a User, Group, or Role object, and presents you with a single policy, summarizing all of their actual permissions. You can also refer to the companion blog post.
Lambda Looter will take a list of profiles and scan through them and download the code you have access to and then process that code for secrets outputting any potential secrets to a loot directory.
AWS launched two new global condition context keys that make it simpler for you to write policies in which EC2 instance credentials work only when used on the instance to which they are issued.
How to implement a solution to protect business-critical assets stored in S3 by using S3 Replication and S3 Object Lock to create an immutable copy of the data in a separate AWS account.
Post explaining the resource perimeter, the control objectives achieved by the perimeter, and how to write SCPs and VPC endpoint policies that help achieve these objectives for your organization.
Watch for update notifications and have a strategy to apply the latest security patches, Get deeper visibility and management capabilities, Check for end of support versions and prepare to modernize, Utilize cloud-native services for enhanced security and compliance anywhere.
