Amazon Releases Container Monitoring for Amazon ECS, EKS, and Kubernetes via CloudWatch

A Technical Analysis of the Capital One Hack

The recent disclosure of yet another cloud security misconfiguration leading to the loss of sensitive personal information made the headlines this past week. This particular incident came with a bit more information from the indictment of the accused party, allowing us to piece together the revealed data and take an educated guess as to what may have transpired leading up to the loss of over 100 million credit card applications and 100 thousand social security numbers. At the root of the hack lies a common refrain: the misconfiguration of cloud infrastructure resources allowed an unauthorized user to elevate her privileges and compromise sensitive documents.

AWS Control Tower – Set up & Govern a Multi-Account AWS Environment

Architecting for PCI DSS Segmentation and Scoping on AWS

AWS has published a whitepaper, Architecting for PCI DSS Scoping and Segmentation on AWS, to provide guidance on how to properly define the scope of your Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) workloads running on the AWS Cloud. The whitepaper looks at how to define segmentation boundaries between your in-scope and out-of-scope resources using cloud native AWS services. The whitepaper is intended for engineers and solution builders, but it also serves as a guide for Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs) and internal security assessors (ISAs) to better understand the different segmentation controls available within AWS products and services, along with associated scoping considerations.