Episode 19: Understanding Cloud Attack Vectors

02/08/2020 40 min Episodio 19

                    Episode 19: Understanding Cloud Attack Vectors

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Episode Synopsis


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Guest: Or Kamara
Guest Title:  Senior team lead 
Company:  Synk
Abstract
Cloud computing can bring interesting and new attack vectors. In this episode, we talk with Or Kamara, Senior team lead at Synk, about the Capital-one hacking and what can be learned from the event in order to better protect our networks. We will analyze the attack step by step and add mitigating controls that can help in preventing the next attack.
Timing:
0:35 Introducing our guest
4:10 introducing the story the capital one hack 
5:45 The phases of the Capital One hack
7:50 The first misconfiguration - servers exposed to the internet unintentionally
11:05 the SSRF vulnerability and understanding meta-data service
19:38 Using API keys for browsing S3 and how to mitigate it
26:00 things that Capital One did right and additional insights
28:00 how should developers and IT 
30:50 shifting from traditional security to new cloud security mindset
36:00 summary and final words

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