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59 publications
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Diagnose NAT gateway port exhaustion before adding capacity

Match allocation errors to destination tuples and gateway mode before changing connection pools, addresses or routes.

Resilience · AWS · 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

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

Isolate document parsing before RAG ingestion

Give document parsing a bounded worker, then admit its extracted content separately before embedding or indexing.

AI systems · Apache Tika / Kubernetes / gVisor · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Separate stopping a fault experiment from recovering the service

Plan AWS FIS around separate evidence for stopping execution, removing fault effects and accepting the recovered application.

Resilience · 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

Finish S3 multipart uploads with verifiable object integrity

Keep an owned part manifest and verify the complete object result, because successful part transfers and an initial HTTP 200 are not sufficient completion evidence.

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

Decide what happens when an AI guardrail fails

Distinguish denial, incomplete checks and late results, then decide what may cross each protected release point.

AI systems · Algolia / TrueFoundry / Conductor · 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

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
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Recovery objectives that match the cloud service

Define the business function, outage clock, recoverable data and dependency assumptions before choosing a cloud disaster-recovery architecture.

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

Entra emergency access that survives normal sign-in failure

A second administrator account does not prove an independent recovery path. Test the credential, workstation, policy and alert dependencies together.

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

Design an outbound fetch service that contains SSRF

A URL check is only the first decision. The fetch worker must contact the approved destination, recheck redirects and limit the authority of every request.

Workload security · OWASP / IANA · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Short SSH certificates still need explicit access boundaries

An SSH certificate supplies bounded identity claims. The issuer, server, client and incident operator still make separate access decisions.

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

Certificate renewal under shorter validity limits

Use the public TLS issuance schedule to review authorization, renewal, deployment and independent verification of the certificate an endpoint actually serves.

Resilience · CA/Browser Forum / Let's Encrypt / AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

The telemetry collector is part of the evidence boundary

Review sender identity, tenant routing, processing and export as separate trust boundaries before treating collected telemetry as dependable evidence.

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

Prepare cloud workloads for hybrid post-quantum TLS

Hybrid support in a library is not proof that every TLS hop uses it. Verify negotiation, compatibility and fallback while keeping certificate authentication separate.

Workload security · IETF / NIST / OpenSSL / Cloudflare · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

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
Technical guideSource-based analysis

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
Technical guideSource-based analysis

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
Technical guideSource-based analysis

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