Ah, it’s that time of year again. Time to set your clocks back for Daylight Saving, change the batteries in your smoke detectors, and– if you’re smart — check your S3 Buckets and Azure Blob Containers to see if they’re wide open to the public. It’s true that CloudCheckr offers 550+ Best Practice Checks, many […]

While Robocalling firms are probably not high on the list of businesses that the public has a lot of sympathy for, such businesses do have access to our personal data, and that deserves protection. Unfortunately, another security breach occurred this week as hundreds of thousands of voter records were exposed on an AWS S3 Bucket […]

In a welcome move, Amazon has made their S3 Bucket permissions check free for everyone, not just those who pay extra for Business or Enterprise Support. 2017 saw extensive press coverage of enterprises that had left confidential data exposed on public cloud storage. While AWS and all cloud providers conform to a Shared Responsibility Model, […]

The private information of nearly 2 million voters in Chicago has been exposed, thanks to a misconfigured S3 Bucket by a data provider. If this sounds familiar, it has happened several times before, and it will unfortunately happen again. At least until every Amazon Web Services (AWS) user adds the security a cloud management platform like […]

Despite the numerous safeguards built-in to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the widespread publicity of the S3 breach from a few weeks ago, it has happened again. This time it was the World Wrestling Entertainment organization. As before, the WWE did not do their part to lock down the data. And the shame of it […]

Security researchers have identified publicly available S3 storage buckets on at least one high profile site. While this is a legitimate concern, it presents a timely opportunity for all cloud administrators to revisit their own security policies and take action. Security for Amazon Web Services, like most cloud platforms, is achieved through a “Shared Security […]

There is an expression, “To err is human, but to really mess things up, you need a computer.” That could describe the recent #AWSoutage, which caused many websites to malfunction. To Amazon’s credit, they were quite specific in revealing the cause of the outage, specifically a typo in a command issued by an operator. Amazon […]