Identity & Cross Account Access Management in AWS | CLOUD SECURITY - Alexandre Sieira

Identity & Cross Account Access Management in AWS | CLOUD SECURITY - Alexandre Sieira

In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Alexandre Sieira - Founder @ Tenchi Security

In this episode, Alex & Ashish spoke about

  • What was your path into CyberSecurity?
  • What does Cloud Security mean for you?
  • How is Security different in a cloud world?
  • What are the kind of Identities in AWS?
  • What are the challenges with IT?
  • Identity in AWS vs Identity in Azure?
  • Best practices for Privilege and non-Privilege users in AWS?
  • AWS SSO
  • How important are Domain Accounts in Cloud World/
  • Importance of 2FA?
  • What is Cross Account and why does it matter in Cloud?
  • IAM Role in AWS?
  • AWS STS service in AWS?
  • What about Bio metrics as a 2FA?
  • How does one manage identity across a large cloud landscape?
  • Multi-cloud or Poli-cloud?
  • Security people that know all clouds?
  • How should one manage Root Accounts in AWS?
  • What are the challenges with Identity that people are not talking enough about?
  • Recommendation on good source of AWS security training
  • Thoughts on AWS Cognito?
  • Cognito Research by Andres Riancho- https://andresriancho.com/internet-scale-analysis-of-aws-cognito-security/
  • Auditing IAM using Cloud Spanning - https://github.com/salesforce/cloudsplaining
  • Policy Sentry - https://github.com/salesforce/policy_sentry
  • IAM Policy Generator and AWS Challenges between products

ShowNotes and Episode Transcript on www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv

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