🔸AWS Digital Forensics Automation at Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs has automated an event-driven cloud response solution that uses AWS native services to successfully collect disk and memory evidence from Amazon EC2 instances. The solution uses AWS security services Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Security Hub. It also leverages a variety of services such as AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, and AWS Systems Manager (SSM). This Tech Talk provides an overview of Goldman Sachs' environment and a deep dive on how they built automation for digital forensics using AWS native services.

https://youtu.be/CR4_a-TO_gw

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🔸AWS IAM explained for Red and Blue teams

Article trying to shine some light on IAM, as well as some ways to enumerate it with different tools.

https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/aws-iam-explained-for-red-and-blue-teams-2dda8b20fbf7

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🔸Offensive Terraform Modules

Collection of (automated) offensive attack modules defined as Infrastructure as Code (IAC).

https://offensive-terraform.github.io/

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Serverless Seurity

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🔷🔸Enter the Vault: Authentication Issues in HashiCorp Vault

Project Zero found two vulnerabilities in HashiCorp Vault and its integration with AWS and GCP, which can lead to an authentication bypass in configurations that use the aws and gcp auth methods. Both vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-16250/16251) were addressed by HashiCorp and are fixed in Vault versions 1.2.5, 1.3.8, 1.4.4 and 1.5.1 released in August.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/10/enter-the-vault-auth-issues-hashicorp-vault.html

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🔸A visual introduction to AWS Lambda permissions

Article explaining with visual examples the AWS Lambda permission model, focusing on cross-account access and the principle of least privilege.

https://dev.to/harprit/a-visual-introduction-to-aws-lambda-permissions-1k87

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🔸Use AWS Lambda Extensions to Securely Retrieve Secrets From HashiCorp Vault

HashiCorp announced the public preview of a HashiCorp Vault AWS Lambda extension, utilizing the newly announced AWS Lambda Extensions API (also in public preview) to securely retrieve secrets from HashiCorp Vault.

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/aws-lambda-extensions-for-hashicorp-vault

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🔸Building the Next Evolution of Cloud Networks at Slack

An overview of the design decisions and tech choices made along the way for Slack’s brand-new network architecture redesign project.

https://slack.engineering/building-the-next-evolution-of-cloud-networks-at-slack/

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🔸Public dataset of Cloudtrail logs from flaws.cloud

Scott Piper has released anonymized CloudTrail logs from flaws.cloud, his hands-on, free AWS security training challenges. The logs are roughly 240MB of largely attack data, covering over a 3.5 year span.

https://summitroute.com/blog/2020/10/09/public_dataset_of_cloudtrail_logs_from_flaws_cloud/

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🔸Automate AWS Firewall Manager onboarding using AWS Centralized WAF and VPC Security Group Management solution

Learn how to automate AWS Firewall Manager onboarding using AWS Centralized WAF and VPC Security Group Management solution:
https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/automate-aws-firewall-manager-onboarding-using-aws-centralized-waf-and-vpc-security-group-management-solution/?sc_channel=sm&sc_campaign=AWSSecurity_Blog&sc_publisher=TWITTER&sc_country=Security&sc_geo=GLOBAL&sc_outcome=adoption&trk=AWSSecurity_Blog_TWITTER&linkId=102181910

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🔸AWS Security Best Practices
August 2016

"We address the following topics:
• How security responsibilities are shared between AWS and you, the customer
• How to define and categorize your assets
• How to manage user access to your data using privileged accounts and groups
• Best practices for securing your data, operating systems, andnetwork
• How monitoring and alerting can help you achieve your security objectives

This whitepaper discusses security best practices in these areas at a high level"

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🔸🔷🔴CloudSecDocs - very cool website about AWS, GCP, Azure and Container Security

For this moment:
- Access Management
- Infrastructure Security
- Logging & Monitoring
- Compute
- Storage
- Dev
- Offensive / Pentest
- Devops

cloudsecdocs.com

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🔸Secure data in AWS with Key Management Service (KMS)

Guide explaining core KMS concepts and showing how to encrypt your data and scale your data access management uniformly across disparate data services.

https://k9security.io/docs/secure-data-in-aws-with-key-management-service-kms/

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🔸AWS Secure Environment Accelerator

The AWS Secure Environment Accelerator is a tool designed to help deploy and operate secure multi-account AWS environments on an ongoing basis. The configuration file enables the completely automated deployment of customizable architectures within AWS without changing a single line of code.

https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-secure-environment-accelerator

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🔸AWS Security Maturity Roadmap

Written by Scott Piper <scott@summitroute.com>

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🔴🔸Announcing OpenCSPM - An Open-Source Cloud Security Posture Management and Workflow Platform

OpenCSPM is an open-source platform developed by Darkbit that aims to make continuous cloud security posture assessments of cloud environments a practical reality for security and compliance teams alike. It offers a unique approach to manage the firehose of security and compliance check results that can even modest AWS and GCP environments can surface, and its control definitions allow for simple yet powerful levels of introspection of its graph data model.

https://darkbit.io/blog/announcing-opencspm

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🔸AWS Network Firewall – New Managed Firewall Service in VPC

AWS Network Firewall lets you protect your VPC with your choice of stateless and stateful firewall rules that can inspect packets bidirectionally and even perform outbound URL filtering:

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/aws/aws-network-firewall-new-managed-firewall-service-in-vpc/

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Public clouds most wanted: Azure skies or nasty dice? Webinar on November 25 at 16.00

At the webinar, experts will discuss the main issues of information security in public clouds and key aspects in it's protection. We will show a live demo of Check Point's Dome9, a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solution that automates governance across multi-cloud assets and services including visualization and assessment of security posture, misconfiguration detection, and enforcement of security best practices and compliance frameworks.

Issues for discussion:
📍 How not to lose control over resources settings in a public cloud
📍 How to protect against unauthorized changes and dangerous settings of public services and it's
📍 How to safely use microservices and kubernetes without creating additional risks for the company

Registration: https://events.webinar.ru/jet/cloudsecurity2511