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27 publications
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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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Remove public SSH access from an EC2 security group

Remove internet-wide EC2 SSH rules after testing Session Manager or restricted SSH. Check all groups, IPv6, fresh sessions, and recovery access.

Workload security · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Keep a Google Cloud Storage bucket private

Use public access prevention and uniform bucket-level access for Cloud Storage, then test IAM readers, signed links, and application dependencies.

Workload security · Google Cloud · By Cloud Security Desk
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Require authentication between Cloud Run services

Configure Cloud Run service-to-service authentication with a dedicated caller identity, the right ID token audience, and useful negative tests.

Workload security · Google Cloud · By Cloud Security Desk
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Check and stop anonymous access to Azure blobs

Understand account and container settings and prove both anonymous denial and intended app access.

Workload security · Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
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Restrict SSH and RDP access with an Azure network security group

Inspect effective rules, preserve the approved management path and test a fresh connection.

Workload security · Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
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Keep Terraform plans and state inside the change boundary

Protect Terraform plans and state as sensitive artifacts, and bind production approval to the specific plan, dependencies, workspace and apply identity that will be used.

Workload security · HashiCorp / AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Separate webhook authenticity from permission to process it

Verify webhook authenticity at intake, then make durable acceptance, duplicate handling and permission to change business state separate decisions.

Workload security · Stripe / GitHub / IETF · By Cloud Security Desk
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Keep build credentials out of the image and its evidence

A temporary BuildKit secret mount controls credential delivery, not everything a build command can do with the credential or leave in its outputs.

Workload security · Docker / GitHub · By Cloud Security Desk
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Turn SBOM and VEX records into patch decisions

A VEX statement is an assertion about a specific product and vulnerability. Match its scope and conditions before using it to suppress a finding.

Workload security · CISA / OpenVEX / CycloneDX / OASIS · By Cloud Security Desk
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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
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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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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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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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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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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
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Test Kubernetes egress policies beyond a successful DNS lookup

Separate DNS resolution, source egress, destination ingress, and application identity when testing Kubernetes network isolation.

Workload security · Kubernetes / Cilium · By Cloud Security Desk
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Roll out Kubernetes Pod Security Admission without surprises

Stage namespace enforcement around the Pods a controller will create next, with explicit policy versions, runtime checks, and narrowly owned exceptions.

Workload security · Kubernetes · By Cloud Security Desk