GETTING STARTED WITH HACKING AWS CLOUD

GETTING STARTED WITH HACKING AWS CLOUD

Cloud Security Podcast - If Hacking the Cloud is on your mind for 2023 then in this "Breaking the AWS Cloud" month we are kicking things with Nick Frichette (Nick's Linkedin), a Senior Security Researcher from DataDog who is also maintains the site Hacking the Cloud linking offensive security research for AWS, Azure, GCP.

Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv

Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)

Guest Twitter: Nick Frichette (Nick's Linkedin)

Podcast Twitter - @CloudSecPod @CloudSecureNews

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Spotify TimeStamp for Interview Questions

(00:00) Introduction
(02:38) snyk.io/csp
(03:26) A bit about Nick
(04:15) How is Security research different?
(05:55) How to approach cloud security research?
(07:24) How to pick the service you want to research?
(08:51) What is AWS AppSync?
(09:30) What is Confused Deputy Vulnerability?
(10:16) The AppSync Vulnerability
(12:09) Cross Account in AWS
(13:41) Blue Teaming Controls when doing research
(14:22) Framework for detective controls
(16:01) What to do if you find an AWS vulnerability?
(17:20) Legal constraints of security research
(20:13) Where to get started in Cloud Security Research?
(22:45) Are some misconfigurations becoming less common?
(24:59) What is IMDSv2 and how is it different to IMDSv1?
(27:00) Why is SSRF bad?
(28:52) Cloud Pentesting Platforms
(29:57) The story being hacking the cloud
(31:25) Who should think about breaking the cloud?
(34:02) Cloud Security Research Tools
(36:38) How to access AWS environment for research?
(39:12) Security Lab Resources
(40:04) The Fun Questions

See you at the next episode!

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