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6 publications
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Find the AWS global control planes in your recovery path

Thirteen AWS control planes run in us-east-1 or us-west-2, and ordinary calls from other Regions still reach them. Audit runbooks, SDK settings and the last exercise, then swap each dependency for a data-plane operation.

Resilience · Amazon Web Services · By Cloud Security Desk
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Encrypt Kubernetes Secrets at rest with a KMS v2 provider

KMS v2 keeps etcd copies and backups unreadable without an external key, but it does not stop API readers. Configure it, compare what EKS, AKS and GKE already do, and finish key rotations with a rewrite.

Workload security · Kubernetes / Amazon EKS / AWS KMS / Azure Kubernetes Service / Azure Key Vault / Google Kubernetes Engine / Cloud KMS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Build a cryptographic inventory for the post-quantum transition

Record where public-key cryptography protects long-lived data and which library, service or vendor must change it. Then rank entries by function and data lifetime, not by how many RSA keys a scanner found.

Workload security · NIST / CISA / Office of Management and Budget / Amazon Web Services / Google Cloud / Microsoft Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
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Keep an S3 bucket private with Block Public Access

Enable S3 Block Public Access while preserving approved readers. Review the four settings, private CloudFront origins, and practical access tests.

Workload security · AWS · 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
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