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77 publications
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Recover a deleted Azure blob with soft delete

Choose the right recovery action for a blob, version or container and verify restored bytes.

Resilience · Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Recover a deleted Azure Key Vault secret

Distinguish secret recovery from vault recovery and verify versioned application references.

Resilience · Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Design application authorization before writing Cedar policies

Define business actions, trustworthy entities and tenant boundaries before writing Cedar policies, then make the application responsible for enforcing the resulting decision.

Identity & access · AWS / Cedar · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Keep Kubernetes audit records useful without logging secrets

Design a question-led Kubernetes audit policy with explicit body limits, rule precedence, lifecycle stages and provider-specific acceptance checks.

Detection & response · Kubernetes / AWS / Azure / Google Cloud · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Keep Terraform plans and state inside the change boundary

Protect Terraform plans and state as sensitive artifacts, and bind production approval to the specific plan, dependencies, workspace and apply identity that will be used.

Workload security · HashiCorp / AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Make PostgreSQL point in time recovery reproducible

Build a version-aware recovery chain from protected base backups and WAL through timeline selection, isolated replay and application acceptance.

Resilience · PostgreSQL · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Choose who can share an inference prefix cache

Choose the principals allowed to share prefix state, then carry that decision through request routing, offload, transfer and restore.

AI systems · vLLM / NVIDIA · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Set explicit trust boundaries for Entra partner access

Accepting another tenant’s authentication claims is a specific trust decision, not blanket approval of its users, devices or access to your applications.

Identity & access · Microsoft · By Cloud Security Desk
Research noteSource-based analysis

Embeddings still need a sensitive data boundary

Treat vector access as a derived-data release decision, with separate permissions for retrieval, debugging and bulk export.

AI systems · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Keep build credentials out of the image and its evidence

A temporary BuildKit secret mount controls credential delivery, not everything a build command can do with the credential or leave in its outputs.

Workload security · Docker / GitHub · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Give persistent agent memory an admission boundary

Separate conversational candidates from admitted memory, preserve their permitted audience, and make derived summaries repairable.

AI systems · LangChain · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Keep S3 presigned access inside an explicit delegation window

Treat an S3 presigned URL as a reusable delegation whose usable lifetime depends on the signer, the request and the policies that still apply.

Identity & access · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Find the Purview audit history your investigation can still retrieve

Resolve Purview audit availability at the record level by separating actor eligibility, retention policy, collection status, investigator scope and export limits.

Detection & response · Microsoft Purview / Microsoft 365 · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Design RDS IAM authentication around the connection pool

Generate IAM database tokens for the physical connections that need them, and keep token validity separate from the lifetime of an already-established SQL session.

Workload security · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Prove Identity Center permission changes reached every account

A permission-set change is complete only when the intended accounts, account-local policies, provisioning results and assignments have converged.

Identity & access · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Investigate denied access at an AWS VPC endpoint

Use CloudTrail network activity evidence to distinguish endpoint-policy violations from routing failures and downstream authorization problems.

Detection & response · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Restrict device code sign-in without breaking approved clients

Restrict device-code authentication through an explicit client and resource policy, and test the tracked sessions that can outlive the initial browser approval.

Identity & access · Microsoft / IETF · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Keep GitHub audit streaming continuous across maintenance

Plan audit-stream maintenance around native history, pause buffers, receiver acceptance and duplicate-aware evidence receipts.

Detection & response · GitHub / AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Give Kubernetes admission webhooks an explicit failure contract

Treat an admission webhook as a control-plane dependency with explicit behavior for denial, call failure, mutation and the changes needed to repair it.

Workload security · Kubernetes · By Cloud Security Desk
Research reportSource-based analysis

Find the shared dependencies behind a cloud outage

Use the June 2025 Google Cloud and Cloudflare reports to review shared runtime, control, identity and recovery dependencies without turning one outage into a provider ranking.

Resilience · Google Cloud / Cloudflare / AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Passkey deployment needs a recovery design

A workforce passkey rollout needs a recovery contract before broad enforcement. Separate credential custody, enrollment evidence and application sessions.

Identity & access · NIST / FIDO Alliance / Microsoft Entra · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Workload federation across clouds needs separate trust decisions

Cross-cloud federation adds trust decisions, not a portable permission system. Map each credential and resource grant before moving a runtime workload.

Identity & access · AWS / Google Cloud / Microsoft Entra · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

A defensible cloud patch queue starts with exploitation evidence

Join exploitation evidence to affected assets, exposure, ownership and verified remediation without turning CVSS, EPSS or a catalog entry into a complete risk score.

Detection & response · CISA / NIST / FIRST · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Choosing isolation for a Kubernetes tenant

A namespace, a virtual control plane and a sandboxed runtime protect different boundaries. Start with tenant authority before choosing the cluster architecture.

Workload security · Kubernetes / gVisor / Kata Containers · By Cloud Security Desk