The AWS cloud's interface for creating IAM policies has always left a little bit to be desired. Although the interface works, it's a little bit messy and I have heard more than one person say that it ...

Identity and access management (IAM) is the process of identifying and controlling the access granted to users, devices and services. It is one of the oldest concepts in security, tracing back to the ...

To counter the challenges posed by EleKtra-Leak, Unit 42 researchers devised counterstrategies, including automating the creation of randomized AWS and user accounts equipped with deliberately ...

A spokesperson that this means IAM does not treat a user as part of a group when it comes to deny rules. The differences between AWS IAM and Active Directory means organisations need to pay close ...

I recently wrote a blog post about using the AWS Fault Injection Simulator to find out what happens when an EC2 spot instance is interrupted. One of the key requirements for making the Fault Injection ...

Unfortunately, when the AWS CLI is installed, only one IAM account is configured. If you need to switch between multiple accounts in the CLI for different tasks, that can be a head-scratcher. Here's ...

Naor Haziz’s discovery shows how a compromised container on EC2-backed ECS tasks can impersonate the ECS agent and steal IAM ...