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Results for “RAG”

69 publications
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Define the expiry boundary for Entra privileged access

PIM records activation and expiry, but the protected application still determines when changed authority takes effect. Review both sides of that boundary.

Identity & access · Microsoft Entra · By Cloud Security Desk
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Keep MCP tokens bound to the intended resource

Keep token audiences, user consent, and downstream tool authority separate when reviewing a protected HTTP MCP service.

AI systems · MCP · By Cloud Security Desk
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Verify the CloudTrail files behind an incident timeline

Digest delivery and successful validation are different evidence states. Preserve the files, metadata and validation result needed to distinguish them.

Detection & response · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Close the AWS sessions that survive identity shutdown

Removing a login does not by itself establish that issued AWS credentials have lost their authority. Build a revocation procedure that accounts for both.

Identity & access · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Protect backup copies from the account that runs production

Map deletion authority, retention protection, keys, and recovery identities so a surviving backup has a usable path back to service.

Resilience · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Keep private documents out of shared RAG answers

Authorize retrieved documents before they enter model context, preserve permissions on chunks, and make source access changes visible in the retrieval path.

AI systems · Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
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Choose the S3 object events your investigation will need

CloudTrail event history is not an object-access ledger. Build selectors around the questions an investigation must answer, then test the exclusions.

Detection & response · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Cloud logs that never reach the SIEM

A dashboard can be healthy while the evidence behind it is incomplete. Coverage needs to be tested from event creation to searchable record.

Detection & response · AWS / Azure / Google Cloud · By Umair Akbar and Ahmed Elshekh