Security in the Cloud

Explores hosting red team phishing pages and payloads on Azure services under Microsoft's trusted domains, using their good reputation to slip past web filters as domain fronting fades.

Reviews the Georgia Tech 2013 cyber threat forecast: cloud botnets, mobile browser and wallet flaws, malware obfuscation, counterfeit hardware in the supply chain, and healthcare data risks.

After a dull conference, the author concludes cloud pentesting is fundamentally the same as traditional testing: virtualized or shared, the underlying technology and security controls hardly change.

I recently had the opportunity to review an article by Michael Koploy of Software Advice titled "HHS Data Tells the True Story of HIPAA Violations in the Cloud".

We held the Secure360 conference in the Twin Cities last week. Presentation topics included PCI, cloud computing, and problems within the security industry.

Syncing Domain Admins into Entra ID lets attackers pivot from compromised on-prem AD to the cloud, and back via password writeback. CIS and Microsoft advise keeping privileged admin accounts cloud-only.