By leveraging IAM and bucket policies, users can also enforce DSSE-KMS. Each encryption layer employs a distinct cryptographic implementation library with its own data encryption keys.

In one interesting twist, the threat actors behind EleKtra-Leak were found to blacklist AWS accounts that habitually expose IAM credentials.

At their re:invent 2014 show Amazon launched AWS Key Management Service (KMS), “a managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data ...

Almost 80% of AWS environments contained IAM (Identity Access Management) users with enabled access keys not used for 180 days or more, leading to potential ransomware risk.

IT admins use group policies to manage user access via Active Directory, but AWS takes a subtly different approach, which can be exploited.

Cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure have several options for IAM policies. The following are best practices to consider when using these platforms. 1) Protect the Root ...

The AWS cloud's interface for creating IAM policies has always left a little bit to be desired. Although the interface works, it's a little bit messy and I have heard more than one person say that it ...

AWS power users often possess multiple IAM accounts with which they execute terminal commands and CLI operations. For example, an AWS developer might rely on separate accounts to manage Kubernetes ...

Naor Haziz’s discovery shows how a compromised container on EC2-backed ECS tasks can impersonate the ECS agent and steal IAM credentials from other tasks—without host access.