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What the IAM Policy Simulator Actually Tells You (and What It Doesn't)

Dev.to · Shieldly 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

What the IAM Policy Simulator Actually Tells You (and What It Doesn't)

AWS ships a policy simulator: paste a principal, an action, a resource, and it tells you whether that...

Why Reviewing IAM Policies One at a Time Misses the Real Risk

Dev.to · Shieldly 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Why Reviewing IAM Policies One at a Time Misses the Real Risk

Ask most teams how they review IAM, and the answer is some version of: pull up the policy, read the...

4 IAM Misconfiguration Patterns That Keep Showing Up in Real AWS Accounts

Dev.to · Shieldly 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

4 IAM Misconfiguration Patterns That Keep Showing Up in Real AWS Accounts

I spend a lot of time looking at IAM policies. Real ones — from production accounts, staging...

The Hidden Cost of Manual IAM Review

Dev.to · Shieldly 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

The Hidden Cost of Manual IAM Review

The Hidden Cost of Manual IAM Review Most teams don't track how long they spend reviewing...

Catch Risky IAM in Your CDK App Before cdk deploy

Dev.to · Shieldly 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Catch Risky IAM in Your CDK App Before cdk deploy

You ship a CDK stack. One IAM role has a wildcard because you copy-pasted a gist eight months ago....

AWS IAM Privilege Escalation: Real Attack Paths DevOps Engineers Need to Know

Dev.to · Shieldly 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

AWS IAM Privilege Escalation: Real Attack Paths DevOps Engineers Need to Know

You've locked down your AWS accounts. MFA is enforced, no wildcard IAM policies in production, and...

9 AWS IAM Privilege Escalation Methods You Can Check in 5 Minutes

Dev.to · Shieldly 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

9 AWS IAM Privilege Escalation Methods You Can Check in 5 Minutes

Most AWS IAM breaches do not start with a zero-day. They start with a policy that granted one...

Gate Insecure AWS IAM in Pull Requests with a Free GitHub Action

Dev.to · Shieldly 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Gate Insecure AWS IAM in Pull Requests with a Free GitHub Action

Originally published at shieldly.io/blog. Most IAM problems are not caught by a clever attacker....

AWS STS ExternalId and the Confused Deputy Problem: A Practical Guide

Dev.to · Shieldly 🔐 Cybersecurity 2mo ago

AWS STS ExternalId and the Confused Deputy Problem: A Practical Guide

Originally published at shieldly.io/blog. Cross-account IAM roles are the standard mechanism for...

The 7 IAM Misconfigurations We See in Almost Every AWS Account

Dev.to · Shieldly 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

The 7 IAM Misconfigurations We See in Almost Every AWS Account

Originally published at shieldly.io/blog. After analyzing a lot of IAM policies, the same seven...

Securing S3 Bucket Policies: Public Access, Conditions, and Common Mistakes

Dev.to · Shieldly 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Securing S3 Bucket Policies: Public Access, Conditions, and Common Mistakes

Originally published at shieldly.io/blog. S3 bucket policies are written once and forgotten. They...

Catching Risky IAM in CloudFormation Templates Before You Deploy

Dev.to · Shieldly 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Catching Risky IAM in CloudFormation Templates Before You Deploy

Originally published at shieldly.io/blog. Most IAM security conversations center on the AWS...

AWS IAM NotAction vs Deny: The Misread Statement That Grants Everything

Dev.to · Shieldly 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

AWS IAM NotAction vs Deny: The Misread Statement That Grants Everything

Originally published at shieldly.io/blog. NotAction is one of the most misunderstood IAM elements....