May 18, 2021First glance at AWS CloudFormation Guard 2.0Yesterday AWS CloudFormation Guard version 2.0 was introduced. Guard is an open source tool that can be used to validate CloudFormation templates against certain rules. You can use it for linting your templates both on syntax and semantics. Linting tools are essential in CI/CD pipelines and an powerful addition when…AWS3 min readAWS3 min read
May 12, 2021Defense in depth mattersRecently a nasty vulnerability in AWS CloudShell was reported by Google’s Project Zero. Due to a bug in the library handling interaction with the shell and the browser an attacker could trigger remote code execution. AWS CloudShell is a browser based shell which gives a pre-authenticated web-based shell. …AWS8 min readAWS8 min read
Mar 31, 2021Optimizing your security footprint in AWS — part 2This blog is a follow up on my previous blog post about optimizing your security footprint in AWS. In this series of blogs I would like to focus on improving your security in the cloud without further increase of your running costs. …AWS6 min readAWS6 min read
Mar 23, 2021Optimizing your security footprint in AWS — part 1In the last few years the costs for running security went skyrocketing. We’ve seen an explosion of security solutions, all fighting for their own place in cybersecurity. …AWS5 min readAWS5 min read
