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Safeguard articles tagged "aws-security" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.

31 articles

Application Security

How to secure an Amazon S3 bucket

S3 misconfigurations have caused breaches from Verizon to Pegasus Airlines. Here's what actually secures a bucket—defaults, policies, encryption, and monitoring that hold.

Jun 20, 20268 min read
Application Security

AWS IAM permissions boundaries best practices

How AWS IAM permissions boundaries cap delegated identities, differ from SCPs, and where teams get privilege escalation wrong.

Jun 20, 20267 min read
Infrastructure Security

Scanning Terraform code for security misconfigurations

Public S3 buckets, open security groups, and wildcard IAM policies are the recurring Terraform mistakes behind most cloud breaches — here's how to catch them before apply.

Jun 19, 20268 min read
Infrastructure Security

Managing Terraform state file security risks

Terraform state files store database passwords, IAM keys, and private keys in plaintext. Here's how they leak, why encryption alone won't save you, and how to lock them down.

Jun 19, 20267 min read
Infrastructure Security

Scanning AWS CloudFormation templates for misconfigurations

CloudFormation deploys exactly what you write, misconfigurations included. Here's how scanning catches IAM, S3, and security group errors before they ship.

Jun 18, 20267 min read
Infrastructure Security

Cloud misconfiguration as the top cause of cloud breaches

Capital One, Toyota, and a single Azure endpoint that leaked 65,000 companies' data all trace back to one root cause: cloud misconfiguration.

Jun 17, 20267 min read
Security

AWS Permission Boundary: How to Cap IAM Privileges Safely

An AWS permission boundary sets the maximum permissions an IAM identity can ever have. Here is how boundaries work, when to use them, and the mistakes that quietly defeat them.

May 5, 20265 min read
Security

Securing Nginx on AWS: The Webinar-Grade Hardening Checklist

Running Nginx on AWS pairs two of the most common infrastructure choices, and this is the hardening walkthrough we would give in a live AWS Nginx webinar.

Apr 23, 20266 min read
Cloud Security

AWS Security Tools: Native Services vs Third-Party Platforms

GuardDuty, Inspector, and Security Hub cover a lot of ground — but they stop at the AWS account boundary. Here is where native AWS security tools genuinely suffice and where third-party platforms earn their cost.

Apr 1, 20266 min read
Infrastructure Security

What is AWS CloudFormation Security

What is CloudFormation security? A practical breakdown of IAM least privilege, drift detection, secret scanning, and template misconfigurations that cause breaches.

Mar 12, 20266 min read
Cloud Security

How to set up AWS GuardDuty for threat detection

A step-by-step guide to enabling AWS GuardDuty across accounts and regions, routing findings to your alerting stack, and triaging results.

Feb 20, 20268 min read
Cloud Security

How to set up AWS CloudTrail logging

A step-by-step guide to setting up AWS CloudTrail logging, enabling it across all regions, validating log integrity, and building a solid audit logging setup.

Feb 16, 20267 min read

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