Introduction In a usual DevOps pipeline process, the idea of security comes quite late in the process, right before the deployment. Security testing at this point has a major issue. The problem is that in many cases apart from the small security bugs that show up, a lot of serious Read more…
Hi all, In this post, we will discuss the various AWS Reconnaissance Tools used to recon and exploit AWS cloud accounts. Let’s first look at the reasons due to which credentials get exposed: Vulnerabilities in AWS hosted applications like SSRF (Server Side Request Forgery) and LFI (Local File Inclusion) Code Read more…
What is PacBot? PacBot is Policy as Code Bot which does continuous compliance monitoring, compliance reporting and security automation for AWS(as of the date I am writing this post) from T-Mobile. In PacBot, security and compliance policies are implemented as a code. All resources discovered by PacBot are evaluated against Read more…
Introduction CloudSploit is an AWS compliance, security and configuration monitoring scanner which is the first of its kind. It is an open source project designed to detect security risks in AWS. The CloudSploit Scans is built on NodeJS script which works on two phases. Collection and Scanning. After a successful run, Read more…
Introduction Nimbostratus is a tool developed by Andres Riancho for fingerprinting and exploiting Amazon cloud infrastructures. Nimbostratus uses any application level HTTP proxy vulnerability to enumerate the instance and credentials from the metadata service which is available to all the instances in EC2. This tool-set can be tested on nimbostratus-target, Read more…
Introduction In this article, we will be talking about Cloud Custodian, an open source rules engine for fleet management in AWS. The simple YAML DSL allows you to easily define rules to enable a well-managed cloud infrastructure, that’s both secure and cost optimized. Cloud Custodian unifies the dozens of tools Read more…
AWS Incident Response In this post, we will be talking about the ways one can set up and automate a set of functions that need to be carried out in a sequence in case an attack happens in AWS, Yes! AWS Incident response. Having the whole infrastructure on the cloud Read more…