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IAM for Multi-Cloud Security
Multicloud.11 IAM is challenging and one of your biggest cloud security risks
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In the last post I wrote about how Drift Detection might help you with multi-cloud security and also some of the pitfalls.
In this post I am going to do a really brief explanation of Identity and Access Management (IAM) for cloud as it’s a topic that could warrant a book in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
In any cloud environment, stolen and abused credentials are your number one risk and source of attack. Those credentials may be stolen by way of misconfigured or abused web applications, checked into source control, captured via phishing, or a keylogger in malware deployed via a vulnerability in software installed on a developer’s laptop — as…