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Stop sharing plaintext secrets with your colleagues

Mar 20, 2022 · 3 min read · There are times when you have to share sensitive information with your colleague. It could be username/password to some dashboard or even to some database. It could be VPN credentials or even your Netflix password 🤷 Sharing the plaintext password th...

Implement SCP to enforce IAM user tagging

Mar 3, 2022 · 3 min read · Whenever an IAM user is created, it's best if it is tagged. The reason is simple... It gives more information about the user. One of the use-cases for user tagging could be to distinguish the user while running automation scripts. Various types of us...

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Implement AWS IAM Least Privilege at Scale

Mar 2, 2022 · 7 min read · Creating an AWS IAM user is a common activity to access the AWS resources. Most often, the IAM user created is given the largest group of permissions. More often than not, the AdministratorAccess policy is attached if the user doesn't know which gran...

Implement AWS IAM Least Privilege at scale

Feb 20, 2022 · 7 min read · Creating an AWS IAM user is a common activity to access the AWS resources. Most often, the IAM user created is given the largest group of permissions. More often than not, the AdministratorAccess policy is attached if the user doesn't know which gran...

Enforce MFA to AWS IAM users

Feb 4, 2022 · 8 min read · Welcome to yet another blog post, where we learn how to enforce Multi-factor authentication to IAM users and ensure secure authentication. This solution will block access to all AWS resources until the user enables MFA on AWS. We will implement this ...