In today’s post, I will talk about a hacking investigation I recently took part in. We will look into what went wrong, what the attackers did, and how we can improve detection and prevention to manage such incidents better.
To our pleasant surprise, Chef awarded tecRacer the “2021 Technology Partner of the Year” title at the opening keynote of ChefConf 2021.
We, as tecRacer, thrive on our individual and unique employees. In our series “Insider Stories” Matthias will tell you how he found his way to the company as well as how he experiences working for tecRacer.
Writing “Least Privilege” policies is an art in itself, but it inevitably leads to a large number of JSON-based policies in your accounts. As one of the rules of good security is “low maintainability = low security”, let’s dive into tools which can show us risks inside our policies - which might even result in paths to administrative privileges!
IAM Roles are a critical security feature in AWS. Handling them is not very intuitive in the beginning. In this blog post we take a look behind the curtain and explain what’s going on when you assume a role.
With current ransomware attacks it is important to have a reliable backup strategie in place. With Veeam Backup & Replication you are able to backup your on-premises and hybrid environments and extend your storage solution with AWS Cloud capabilities to increase capacity and archiving storage with AWS S3 service.
Concurrent access to the same items in DynamoDB can lead to consistency problems. In this post I explain why that is and introduce optimistic locking as a technique to combat this issue.
After describing the context of the test pyramid for Infrastructure as Code in part 1, and the Web Application in Part 2a - let`s apply that to some Lambda function.
