Cloud Security Podcast - If Hacking the Cloud is on your mind for 2023 then in this "Breaking the AWS Cloud" month we are kicking things with Nick Frichette (Nick's Linkedin), a Senior Security Researcher from DataDog who is also maintains the site Hacking the Cloud linking offensive security research for AWS, Azure, GCP.

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Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)

Guest Twitter: Nick Frichette (Nick's Linkedin)

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Spotify TimeStamp for Interview Questions

(00:00) Introduction
(02:38) snyk.io/csp
(03:26) A bit about Nick
(04:15) How is Security research different?
(05:55) How to approach cloud security research?
(07:24) How to pick the service you want to research?
(08:51) What is AWS AppSync?
(09:30) What is Confused Deputy Vulnerability?
(10:16) The AppSync Vulnerability
(12:09) Cross Account in AWS
(13:41) Blue Teaming Controls when doing research
(14:22) Framework for detective controls
(16:01) What to do if you find an AWS vulnerability?
(17:20) Legal constraints of security research
(20:13) Where to get started in Cloud Security Research?
(22:45) Are some misconfigurations becoming less common?
(24:59) What is IMDSv2 and how is it different to IMDSv1?
(27:00) Why is SSRF bad?
(28:52) Cloud Pentesting Platforms
(29:57) The story being hacking the cloud
(31:25) Who should think about breaking the cloud?
(34:02) Cloud Security Research Tools
(36:38) How to access AWS environment for research?
(39:12) Security Lab Resources
(40:04) The Fun Questions

See you at the next episode!

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