Cloud & Infrastructure Security
Cloud posture management, container security, zero-trust architectures, and network boundaries.
Information security architecture, defense-in-depth, threat intelligence, and vulnerability management.
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Cloud posture management, container security, zero-trust architectures, and network boundaries.
Offensive security testing, red teaming, exploit analysis, and vulnerability reporting.
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Zero Trust hinges on continuous identity verification, device health, micro‑segmentation, mTLS, analytics, and policy enforcement via OIDC, OPA, and ZTNA proxies.
Combine tiered containment, automated quarantine, and immutable backup restores, aligned to NIST CSF 4.0, for a ransomware‑ready IRP.
SOC 2 Type II proves six‑month operational effectiveness of security controls; engineering can achieve audit readiness by mapping trust services, automating evidence, and hardening logging.
Add Trivy and Snyk scans to CI/CD, cache Trivy DB, and fail builds on high/critical findings.
Shadow IT creates data leaks, unpatched bugs, compliance gaps, credential sprawl, and lateral movement, all detectable with specific thresholds and queries.
Use Vault KV v2 with a sidecar agent to store and inject SSH keys and API secrets, applying fine‑grained policies and short‑lived tokens.
Automate S3 public‑access detection with Config/GuardDuty and remediate via EventBridge‑Lambda, IaC guards, and nightly drift scans.
IaC scanning tools like Checkov and tfsec lint Terraform code for security issues; integrate them via CI steps and remember to enable experimental policies in Checkov.
Secure Kubernetes pod-to-pod communications using Cilium Network Policies by leveraging eBPF for identity-based L3/L4 and L7 enforcement, defining granular ingress/egress rules bas
Enable rate‑limit and anomaly‑detection modules, set thresholds just above baseline, and whitelist health‑check IPs to avoid false positives.
CSPM tools auto‑scan cloud APIs, evaluate policy code, and trigger remediation to keep multi‑cloud security posture continuously aligned.
Immutable pipelines combine signed images, SBOM validation, and declarative IaC to enforce zero‑trust deployments.
Layered IAM roles with permission boundaries, explicit denies, and cross‑cloud mirroring enforce least privilege while keeping auditability.
Set up IAM Identity Center with Okta or Azure AD via SAML, map groups to permission sets, and assign them using AWS CLI; watch for propagation delay.
GCP Workload Identity Federation and AWS IRSA replace static keys with short‑lived tokens via OIDC providers and K8s service‑account bindings, enforcing least‑privilege access.