Episode 19: Understanding Cloud Attack Vectors

Attendees Guest: Or Kamara Guest Title:  Senior team lead  Company:  Synk Abstract Cloud computing can bring interesting and new attack vectors. In this episode, we talk with Or Kamara, Senior team lead at Synk, about the Capital-one hacking and what can be learned from the event in order to better protect our networks. We will analyze the attack step by step and add mitigating controls that can help in preventing the next attack. Timing: 0:35 Introducing our guest 4:10 introducing the story the capital one hack  5:45 The phases of the Capital One hack 7:50 The first misconfiguration - servers exposed to the internet unintentionally 11:05 the SSRF vulnerability and understanding meta-data service 19:38 Using API keys for browsing S3 and how to mitigate it 26:00 things that Capital One did right and additional insights 28:00 how should developers and IT  30:50 shifting from traditional security to new cloud security mindset 36:00 summary and final words

Episode 19 of the SilverLining IL podcast, hosted by MarkeTech Group, titled "Episode 19: Understanding Cloud Attack Vectors" was published on August 2, 2020 and runs 40 minutes.

August 2, 2020 ·40m · SilverLining IL

Summary

Attendees Guest: Or Kamara Guest Title:  Senior team lead  Company:  Synk Abstract Cloud computing can bring interesting and new attack vectors. In this episode, we talk with Or Kamara, Senior team lead at Synk, about the Capital-one hacking and what can be learned from the event in order to better protect our networks. We will analyze the attack step by step and add mitigating controls that can help in preventing the next attack. Timing: 0:35 Introducing our guest 4:10 introducing the story the capital one hack  5:45 The phases of the Capital One hack 7:50 The first misconfiguration - servers exposed to the internet unintentionally 11:05 the SSRF vulnerability and understanding meta-data service 19:38 Using API keys for browsing S3 and how to mitigate it 26:00 things that Capital One did right and additional insights 28:00 how should developers and IT  30:50 shifting from traditional security to new cloud security mindset 36:00 summary and final words

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