We’ve just released a new feature in our ActiveEye platform that lets you visualize network activity in Amazon virtual private clouds (VPCs). In today’s blog we’ll discuss why we developed this capability. We will also explain how you can use it to detect potential security threats faster. DevOps teams are rapidly deploying applications to cloud environments. We… Read More
Every year, technologists wait for the AWS re:Invent 2018 conference in Las Vegas like a four-year-old on Christmas Eve. At this event, Amazon Web Services announces most of their major product and feature releases, and this year was no exception. At Delta Risk, we pay close attention to these releases every year for ideas on ways we… Read More
Welcome to our third blog on incident response in the cloud. The first two posts primarily focused on the built-in capabilities from cloud service providers that can help your incident response efforts. We also discussed how to configure your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment to take advantage of those features. Today, we are going to look at some tools that are… Read More
Dealing with the aftermath of an incident in a cloud environment can be a daunting scenario given the challenges that cloud infrastructure security presents. Depending on how many systems and applications you host in various cloud environments (including through your third-party connections), a single incident can have far-reaching consequences. Moreover, without physical access to your systems, lack… Read More
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced that it was making the AWS Trusted Advisor S3 Bucket Permission Check free for all AWS users, regardless of their support subscription. While this announcement generated quite a bit of buzz in blogs and the Twitter-sphere, this capability has been free to use in AWS Config’s Public Read Rule for quite some time…. Read More
Cloud security is a hot topic lately, and for good reason. As more businesses have migrated to the cloud, there have been more data breaches. In our recent webinar, Flying Blind: 2017 Cloud Configurations Gone Wrong, cloud security experts John Hawley and Mike Piscopo detailed several of the worst misconfiguration disasters we’ve seen this year. Among the data breach incidents we… Read More