SilverLining Episode 56: Researching Cloud giants security mechanisms

Guest: Vladi Sandler, Co-Founder & CEO, Gafnit Amiga, VP of Research, Lightspin

Topic: Researching Cloud giants security mechanisms 

Language: English

Abstract

The leading cloud providers these days are storing growing parts of human knowledge and businesses , and therefore their services require to be top notch in security and most of the time, they actually provide very resilient security services. But every now and then, a talented security researcher finds vulnerabilities even on the most mature services - In this episode we spoke with Vladi Sandler & Gafnit Amiga from Lightspin regarding the AWS RDS vulnerability they recently discovered and what is the process of researching cloud provider vulnerabilities and how to do responsible disclosure.  As a bonus, we also discussed the open-source tools released by Lightspin and the way they can help organizations protect their cloud resources.

https://blog.lightspin.io/aws-rds-critical-security-vulnerability

https://recon.cloud  -  Free CNAPP tool

https://github.com/lightspin-tech/red-detector - EC2 vulnerability scanner 

https://github.com/lightspin-tech/red-kube - K8S Adversary Emulation