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67 publications
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An evidence plan for AI incident response

An AI incident record needs to connect the system version, context, output, downstream action and observed consequence. A saved prompt or a public report is only part of that evidence.

AI systems · By Cloud Security Desk
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The bottlenecks that shape a cloud DDoS response

Distinguish bandwidth, packet processing, connection state and application work before choosing a DDoS response or assuming the whole service path is protected.

Resilience · AWS / Azure / Google Cloud / Cloudflare · By Cloud Security Desk
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Cloud detection coverage after the ATT&CK data model change

Connect current ATT&CK strategies and analytics to available events, implemented rules and test evidence, while keeping taxonomy counts separate from protection.

Detection & response · MITRE · By Cloud Security Desk
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Know when AWS KMS encryption needs an envelope

KMS Encrypt has small plaintext limits. Follow the data key and encrypted-message format when an application needs to protect larger payloads.

Workload security · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Model output needs its own trust boundary

A model can produce valid JSON containing an unauthorized identifier, an unsafe link or text that a renderer interprets as code. The application consuming that output owns the next trust decision.

AI systems · OpenAI · By Cloud Security Desk
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Where DNS failover loses control of the clock

Separate authoritative routing, resolver caches, stale answers, runtime caching and existing connections when describing what DNS failover can achieve.

Resilience · AWS / Cloudflare / Oracle · By Cloud Security Desk
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Keep database changes compatible with application rollback

Preserve an explicit relationship between old code and migrated state through additive changes, safe backfills, and a defined rollback window.

Resilience · Kubernetes / GitLab · By Cloud Security Desk
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Map every connection beyond the private AI endpoint

Trace inference, retrieval, tools, administration, and telemetry separately before describing an AI application as private.

AI systems · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Prove Azure Storage private access from DNS to authorization

Check the exact storage subresource, resolve its normal hostname from the application, and test public access and data permissions as separate boundaries.

Workload security · Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
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Build an Azure change record that survives the portal window

Activity Log records and resource logs answer different questions. Preserve the operation outcome, resource context and export scope needed for a later investigation.

Detection & response · Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
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Trace Google service account impersonation across every hop

A short-lived token can carry a broad identity. Review who can mint it, which account it represents and whether the original caller remains visible.

Identity & access · Google Cloud · By Cloud Security Desk
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Stop retries from amplifying an outage

Count attempts across the complete request path, give retries a finite owner and budget, and define how repeated intent avoids duplicate side effects.

Resilience · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Keep sensitive prompts out of routine telemetry

Collect diagnostic metadata for a defined purpose and treat prompts, retrieved documents, tool arguments, and responses as a separate content-capture decision.

AI systems · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Keep tenant data out of reusable AWS Lambda state

Reuse clients and connections deliberately, while keeping request identity, temporary files, and initialization snapshots inside clearly defined data lifetimes.

Workload security · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Measure GuardDuty runtime coverage from the resource outward

An enabled protection plan does not describe the health of every workload. Review supported resources, agents, connectivity and the denominator behind coverage.

Detection & response · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Place AWS guardrails on the principal and the resource

SCPs and RCPs constrain different sides of a request. A useful review records both the applicable guardrails and the policies that actually grant access.

Identity & access · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Keep encryption keys recoverable with the data they protect

Trace each encrypted recovery point to its required key, usable lifecycle state, and restore permissions before retiring cryptographic dependencies.

Resilience · AWS / Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
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Put enforceable boundaries around agent tool calls

Treat model proposals as requests for authority, then check the operation, resource, recipient, and approval at the point where a tool can create a side effect.

AI systems · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Verify container provenance before admitting a pinned image

Use the digest to identify the artifact, then check who signed it, which builder produced it, and which evidence survived promotion into the deployment registry.

Workload security · Kubernetes / Docker / Sigstore · By Cloud Security Desk
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Find the Google audit logs missing from your evidence window

Audit category, inherited configuration, destination and reader permissions all affect what an investigator can retrieve. Retention is only one part of the record.

Detection & response · Google Cloud · By Cloud Security Desk
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Review the authority behind every Entra app consent

The permission name is only part of the decision. Review the access mode, resource scope, consenting authority and people who can change the application.

Identity & access · Microsoft Entra · By Cloud Security Desk
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Make regional failover work without new infrastructure

Prepare capacity, dependencies, and the routing control path before an incident, then measure when clients reach an accepted recovery service.

Resilience · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Treat model downloads as software supply chain changes

Review weights, custom code, dependencies, and runtime authority as separate decisions before promoting a downloaded model into a trusted environment.

AI systems · Hugging Face · By Cloud Security Desk
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Require EC2 IMDSv2 without breaking container credentials

Separate metadata token requirements from response hop limits, then verify both existing instances and future launches before declaring the migration complete.

Workload security · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk