Articles tagged with "security"

Creating an Alarm to Detect Usage of a Pending Deletion KMS Keys and AWS Secrets

In cloud computing, security is a critical concern. While AWS provides backup solutions for many resources, custom configurations often require additional protection. Two key services, AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and AWS Secrets Manager, don’t offer direct backup options. However, they implement a deletion grace period— by default 30 days and this is the maximum — allowing for potential restoration.

AWS Client VPN - Access your Virtual Private Cloud

One of the most unknown options to access a VPC is Client VPN. Nearly all customers I am talking to are using a Bastion Host or similar to access services within their VPC. But what about direct access without any jumps in between? After reading this blog, you can create your own Client VPN.

Using AWS Security Hub for EKS Security

kube-bench is a tool for checking kubernetes clusters against requirements defined in the CIS Benchmark. The tool runs locally on a kubernetes node, performs its checks and prompts the outputs to the shell or to files. This is quite unhandy, because it means that a user needs to pick up the logs, store them somewhere and analyze them. A deployment of the tool via kubernetes can ease the process for example with the kubectl logs command, but it is still far from perfect. Luckily, there is an integration in AWS Security Hub.