Cloud Security Report 2021
We are coming to the end of 2021, and it is a good time to look at the state of cloud security. Several events this year have again highlighted the importance for an increased focus on one’s cloud security posture.An
How to Detect Potentially Dangerous Dangling DNS on AWS
Dangling DNS records are a real security issue and without going into too much detail as to why this is, here is a quick overview of what "dangling DNS" means in the context of AWS. If you do want to know
How to Monitor for Secrets in AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda Functions have been, are and will be a major part of most AWS implementations. They are super handy, quick to develop, can be really cheap and generally just does what it needs to do. In general it is considered
How To Monitor For Risky Public Azure Virtual Machines
Public Azure Virtual Machines are one of the most exploited resources in the Azure cloud. As we mentioned in our recent white paper (here) it only takes a few seconds on average for someone to test your Virtual Machine for
How to find those stupid & annoying public AWS S3 Buckets
One of probably the most commonly referred to services in breaches / data leaks is Amazon AWS's storage service S3. Why? Because it is easy to misconfigure it. We even mentioned it as one of the most common misconfigurations in
Azure CosmosDB Vulnerability – What do I need to do?
Just recently Wiz released an announcement into a very critical vulnerability in one of Microsoft Azure's flagship services, Azure Cosmos DB. Because these things all need great names, Wiz called this one #ChaosDB. Is my Cosmos DB Database Secure? Microsoft states "no customer data was accessed because of
Cloud Security – a Shared Responsibility
Why is Cloud Security such a big challenge? Many organisations seem to struggle with insecure cloud environments even though their Cloud Providers (Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google GCP) provide them with all the tools they need to create secure platforms.
Most Common Cloud Misconfigurations 2021 – Not What You Might Have Thought
ARGOS has deep insights into our customers' cloud environments across the three major public clouds providers. There are a handful of common recurring themes when it comes to cloud misconfigurations.
Context Matters
We have all likely been in situations where someone said something and it did not make much sense or it did not apply in the situation you were in at that time.
Write Custom Functionality with ARGOS APIs
A very common feature request over the last few months was to enable people in the ARGOS ecosystem to write custom functionality against our APIs. Initially this was not possible as we did not expose our APIs for direct consumption.