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19 publications
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

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

Make secret rotation reach every running application

Secret managers, mounted files, application memory and connection pools can disagree about the active credential. Test each stage before calling rotation complete.

Workload security · Kubernetes / AWS / Azure / Google Cloud · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Rotate Entra application certificates with proof of adoption

A renewed certificate can exist in Key Vault while a running client still uses the old key. Define the evidence that makes application rotation complete.

Identity & access · Microsoft Entra / Azure Key Vault · 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

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

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
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

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
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