STShieldly Teaminshieldly.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 2 min readSecuring S3 Bucket Policies: Public Access, Conditions, and Common MistakesS3 bucket policies are written once and forgotten. They survive team changes, architecture pivots, and migration projects — and they accumulate permissions that nobody intended to leave open. S3 misco00
STShieldly Teaminshieldly.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 3 min readCatching Risky IAM in CloudFormation Templates Before You DeployMost IAM security conversations center on the AWS console or raw JSON policy documents. But a significant share of production IAM misconfigurations originates in CloudFormation templates. By the time 00
STShieldly Teaminshieldly.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 2 min readAWS STS ExternalId and the Confused Deputy Problem: A Practical GuideCross-account IAM roles are the standard mechanism for granting third-party services access to your AWS account. The problem is that naming an entire AWS account as the trusted principal is not specif00
STShieldly Teaminshieldly.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 2 min readAWS IAM Trust Policies: Cross-Account Misconfigurations and How to Fix ThemAn IAM role has two separate policy documents: the permission policy (what the role can do) and the trust policy (who can assume it). Most security reviews focus on permissions and treat the trust pol00
STShieldly Teaminshieldly.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 2 min readiam:PassRole Explained: The Most Abused IAM PermissionOf all the IAM permissions that appear in misconfigured AWS accounts, iam:PassRole is the one security teams most consistently underestimate. It does not give a principal admin rights on its own. It d00
