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59 publications
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Remove unused AWS access keys without breaking a job

Review IAM access-key usage, find job dependencies, deactivate safely, and verify final deletion without collecting or exposing secret credentials.

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

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
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Count tokens before sending a prompt to Amazon Bedrock

Count a Bedrock prompt for the chosen model, check endpoint support, distinguish context and output limits, and verify usage without logging prompts.

AI systems · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Choose an RDS recovery window you can actually restore

Choose RDS backup retention, inspect the real restorable interval, validate an isolated database restore, and record cleanup and recovery limits.

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

Connect to a Google Cloud VM with IAP and OS Login

Connect to a Linux VM through IAP and OS Login, check each permission and network layer, and remove old SSH paths with a tested recovery plan.

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

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
Technical guideSource-based analysis

Set up Cloud SQL backups and prove you can restore

Configure Cloud SQL PostgreSQL backups, understand retention settings, and rehearse a restore through database validation and application cutover.

Resilience · Google Cloud · By Cloud Security Desk
Technical guideSource-based analysis

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
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Find why an Azure VM cannot reach a service

Use a specific source and destination with Network Watcher and separate network reachability from app health.

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

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
Technical guideSource-based analysis

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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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
Technical guideSource-based analysis

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
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Bind confidential GPU inference to a verified key release

Require composite evidence, owner policy and verified recipient binding before confidential inference receives protected key material.

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

Make PostgreSQL point in time recovery reproducible

Build a version-aware recovery chain from protected base backups and WAL through timeline selection, isolated replay and application acceptance.

Resilience · PostgreSQL · By Cloud Security Desk
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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
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Read VPC Flow Logs without overclaiming network evidence

Interpret aggregation, address translation, skipped records and delivery clocks before turning a VPC flow record into an incident conclusion.

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

Embeddings still need a sensitive data boundary

Treat vector access as a derived-data release decision, with separate permissions for retrieval, debugging and bulk export.

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

Bind OAuth tokens to the client that presents them

DPoP can make possession of an access token insufficient for use, provided the issuer, client and resource server implement the same proof and key-binding contract.

Identity & access · IETF / Google · By Cloud Security Desk
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Catch late security events without replaying every alert

Separate event time, ingestion time and execution health so delayed records can be evaluated without turning every broader lookback into a replay.

Detection & response · Microsoft Sentinel / Microsoft Defender · 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