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19 publications
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Give Azure readers access to one resource group

Assign Reader without granting write access or assuming it grants data access.

Identity & access · Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Read an Azure Key Vault secret from a VM without a password

Set up one system-assigned VM identity and a vault-scoped secret permission.

Identity & access · Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Get an Azure alert when a role assignment changes

Detect successful RBAC changes and test alert delivery without expanding a production role.

Detection & response · Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Connect to Azure OpenAI without an API key

Prove Entra-based inference with a scoped runtime identity before disabling local authentication.

AI systems · Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Recover a deleted Azure Key Vault secret

Distinguish secret recovery from vault recovery and verify versioned application references.

Resilience · Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
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Design application authorization before writing Cedar policies

Define business actions, trustworthy entities and tenant boundaries before writing Cedar policies, then make the application responsible for enforcing the resulting decision.

Identity & access · AWS / Cedar · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Choose who can share an inference prefix cache

Choose the principals allowed to share prefix state, then carry that decision through request routing, offload, transfer and restore.

AI systems · vLLM / NVIDIA · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Set explicit trust boundaries for Entra partner access

Accepting another tenant’s authentication claims is a specific trust decision, not blanket approval of its users, devices or access to your applications.

Identity & access · Microsoft · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Prove Identity Center permission changes reached every account

A permission-set change is complete only when the intended accounts, account-local policies, provisioning results and assignments have converged.

Identity & access · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

A defensible cloud patch queue starts with exploitation evidence

Join exploitation evidence to affected assets, exposure, ownership and verified remediation without turning CVSS, EPSS or a catalog entry into a complete risk score.

Detection & response · CISA / NIST / FIRST · By Cloud Security Desk
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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

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
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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
Technical guideSource-based analysis

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
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Review the authority behind every Entra app consent

The permission name is only part of the decision. Review the access mode, resource scope, consenting authority and people who can change the application.

Identity & access · Microsoft Entra · 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