Something You Probably Should Include When Building Your Next Threat Models
We are working on our threat models here at DisruptOps, so I decided to refresh my knowledge of different approaches. One thing that quickly stood out is that nearly none of the threat modeling documentation or tools I’ve seen covers [...]
Three of the Most Crucial Sections That Make Up the DevSecOps Roadmap
As I mentioned in our (DevSec)Ops vs. Dev(SecOps) post, we’ve been traveling around to a couple of DevOpsDays conferences presenting our Quick and Dirty DevSecOps talk. One of the things I tend to start with early in the talk is the fact that, like DevOps, [...]
The 4 Phases to Automating Cloud Management
A Security Pro’s Cloud Automation Journey Catch me at a conference and the odds are you will overhear my saying “cloud security starts with architecture and ends with automation.” I quickly follow with how important it is to adopt a [...]
Consolidating Config Guardrails with Aggregators
In Quick and Dirty: Building an S3 guardrail with Config we highlighted one of the big problems with Config: you need to set it up in each region of each account. Your best bet to make that manageable is to use infrastructure [...]
Quick and Dirty: Building an S3 Guardrail with Config
In How S3 Buckets Become Public, and the Fastest Way to Find Yours we reviewed the myriad of ways S3 buckets become public and where to look for them. Today I'll show the easiest way to continuously monitor for public [...]
DisruptOps Introduces Cloud Management Platform for Automated Security and Operations
Company secures $2.5 million seed round investment led by Rally Ventures Kansas City, MO — October 17, 2018 DisruptOPS Inc. today introduces its SaaS-based cloud management platform to implement automated control of cloud infrastructure. Through the continuous assessment and enforcement [...]
How S3 Buckets Become Public, and the Fastest Way to Find Yours
In What Security Managers Need to Know About Amazon S3 Exposures we mentioned that one of the reasons finding your public S3 buckets is so darn difficult is because there are multiple, overlapping mechanisms in place that determine the ultimate [...]
Why Everyone Automates in Cloud
If you see me speaking about cloud it’s pretty much guaranteed I’ll eventually say “Cloud security starts with architecture and ends with automation.” I’m nothing if not repetitive. This isn’t a quip, it’s based on working heavily in cloud for [...]
(DevSec)Ops vs. Dev(SecOps)
I just got back from the Boston DevOps Days. I really enjoy hanging around DevOps and cloud people. The energy of these conferences is great, and they are genuinely excited about transforming how their organizations build and deploy applications. Many [...]
What Security Managers Need to Know About Amazon S3 Exposures (2/2)
Continuing from "What Security Managers Need to Know About Amazon S3 Exposures (1/2)"... In our first post we discussed how the exposure of S3 data becomes such an issue, and some details on how buckets become public in the first [...]
What Security Managers Need to Know About Amazon S3 Exposures (1/2)
The accidental (or deliberate) exposure of sensitive data on Amazon S3 is one of those deceptively complex issues. On the surface it seems entirely simple to avoid, yet despite wide awareness we see a constant stream of public exposures and [...]