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66 publications
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

Measure SCIM offboarding at the application

A successful provisioning update proves a directory action, not the end of every application session. Define and test the application's offboarding contract.

Identity & access · SCIM / Microsoft Entra · 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

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
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

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
Technical guideSource-based analysis

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
Technical guideSource-based analysis

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
Research noteSource-based analysis

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
Technical guideSource-based analysis

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
Technical guideSource-based analysis

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
Technical guideSource-based analysis

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
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Investigate an Entra application through grants and sign-ins

A successful service-principal sign-in is one event in a larger sequence. Connect it to credential changes, permission grants and the resource involved.

Detection & response · Microsoft Entra · By Cloud Security Desk
Research noteSource-based analysis

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
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Measure recovery by the service you can restore

Define application acceptance, recoverable data, and a complete timeline before treating a completed restore job as proof of recovery.

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

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
Research reportDesk publication

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and GLM-5.3-Flash share a 3:1 long-context pattern

Both models replace most conventional attention layers with recurrent state and reserve sparse attention for periodic retrieval. Their differences lie in where they place capacity, how much neural computation they activate, and what their serving stacks must keep trustworthy.

AI systems · Resilience · By Umair Akbar and Ahmed Elshekh
Technical guideIllustrative analysis

What changes when static keys disappear

Workload identity removes a secret, but it also moves trust into issuers, claims, audiences, and runtime attachment points.

Identity & access · Workload security · AWS / Azure / Google Cloud · By Umair Akbar and Ahmed Elshekh