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Preventing Overreliance: Proper Ways to Use LLMs

LLMs have a very uncanny ability of being able to solve problems in a wide variety of domains. Unfortunately, they also have a tendency to fail catastrophically. While an LLM may be able to provide accurate responses 90% of the time, due to nondeterministic behavior, one must be prepared for cases when it gives blatantly wrong or malicious responses. Depending on the use case, this could result in hilarity or, in very bad cases, security compromises. In this blog post, we’ll talk about #9 on th

The Security Benefits of Infrastructure as Code

We have developed and delivered new ways to deliver infrastructure quickly and without these misconfigurations. Prevention is the only cure; we’ll talk about how you can implement this today.

Our Support For Cloudsplaining

We’re proud to announce that Cloud Security Partners will be forking and maintaining Cloudsplaining, the popular cloud IAM tool. Open source and giving back to the community are very important to us and something we try to do often via contributions and free training! The cloud security community has built some amazing tools from Prowler to Parliment and obviously, Cloudsplaining. Cloudsplaining plays an important role in that it gives security teams insight into their IAM policies and possible

Gen AI Security: An Introduction and Resource Guide

Like many industries, Artificial Intelligence has taken the security industry by storm. Security practitioners now are faced with the challenge of understanding new classifications of threats and new techniques of attack. Threat Actors are utilizing AI to improve their attacks, while also exploiting AI services. AI and Generative AI utilize many types of new technologies to build services that are used to improve efficiency and offer new solutions to problems of the past. Of course, along with t

RDS Revealed? Time to Give It Some Shade!

By: John Poulin At Cloud Security Partners, we have audited thousands of customer AWS accounts as part of our security reviews. Across our customers, roughly 5% of the AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) instances we analyze are publicly accessible. A general rule of thumb across the security industry is that resources generally should not be directly accessible on the Internet, especially databases. More often than not, resources can be deployed behind controls, such as Load Balancers, Priva

The Hidden Dangers of Using Terraform's Remote-Exec Provisioner

Terraform is a powerful infrastructure as code tool that can support multi-cloud deployments. Terraform provides consistent and reliable deployments for cloud infrastructure. But as with every tool there are hidden dangers built-in we need to check for! The remote-exec provisioner in Terraform can be a valuable tool, providing the ability to execute scripts and commands on remote resources. However, it can pose significant security risks to your infrastructure without proper control and awarene

Infrastructure as Code Security

I was excited to have the opportunity to speak recently at Kernelcon and BSidesNYC about one of my favorite topics, infrastructure as code (IAC). Having helped multiple companies build IAC security programs, talking about what we've learned is always enjoyable. Companies moving to centralized and well-managed infrastructure as code pipelines with built-in security controls is a massive security win. However, utilizing these tools comes with certain risks that we must manage. As I outlined in m

Finding Strings Everywhere with Roles Anywhere

While scrolling Twitter, I came across this tweet talking about the new AWS feature Roles Anywhere. I was messing around with the aws_signing_helper and got this panic. The trace path doesn't make me feel super confident about the security of their build process. Not that I was happy about the "download this from a random S3 bucket" distribution method either. pic.twitter.com/B58g8fOk49 — David Adams (@daveadams) July 13, 2022 Roles Anywhere is a new way to use IAM roles on systems that aren