Category: Cloud Security
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Container Escape Prevention: What Stops a Compromised Pod From Owning the Node
A container with hostPID, hostNetwork, or privileged mode enabled is not meaningfully isolated from the host — it is a shell on the node with extra steps.
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Cloud Workload Identity Federation: Eliminating Long-Lived Credentials in CI/CD
CI/CD long-lived cloud credentials stored in secrets are compromised constantly — Workload Identity Federation issues short-lived tokens that expire before they can be meaningfully abused.
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Cloud WAF Rule Tuning: Reducing False Positives Without Disabling Protection
WAF false positives that block legitimate users are treated as outages by the business — tune in count mode before enforce mode, or you will disable the WAF under pressure.
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GCP Service Account Key Sprawl: Managing the Credentials You Forgot Existed
GCP service account keys that are never rotated are effectively permanent credentials — every key that exists is an attack surface that should ideally not exist.
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S3 Bucket Policy Mistakes That Exposed Data: A Post-Incident Analysis
S3 Block Public Access at the account level is the single highest-leverage control for preventing accidental data exposure — but it is off by default in older AWS accounts.
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AWS IAM Privilege Escalation: The Paths Attackers Actually Use
IAM privilege escalation in AWS rarely requires compromising an admin account — over 20 documented paths allow escalation from low-privilege users through policy misconfiguration.
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Kubernetes RBAC Over-Permissioning: Finding and Fixing cluster-admin Sprawl
cluster-admin bindings are the sudo of Kubernetes — they bypass all RBAC controls, and in most production clusters, they are assigned to more subjects than anyone realizes.