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A leaked cloud credential is usually treated as a detection problem. Find it, revoke it, rotate it, and move on. But the Volkswagen and Cariad data exposure raises a more important question: why was there a long-lived credential worth stealing in the first place? When a single reusable key can unlock sensitive cloud data, the leak is only part of the problem - the configuration that allowed that key to exist is the other.

On 29 July 2019, Capital One disclosed that an attacker had taken data relating to roughly 106 million people across the United States and Canada. The attacker was Paige Thompson, a former Amazon Web Services engineer, who was arrested the same day and convicted on computer fraud charges in June 2022. The company's settlements reached around $190 million.

Cloud attacks don’t always begin with a vulnerability. Often, they begin with a misconfiguration that gives an attacker a path in. In Part 1 of this series, we look at cloud environments from the attacker’s perspective and break down the three conditions behind many exploitable cloud attack paths: Resource DIscovery, Network Accessibility, and Identity-Based Access.

Your cloud security tools may be working exactly as designed. That’s the problem.

Security teams are still finding and fixing the same misconfigurations over and over. The issue isn’t the tools-it’s a reactive model that detects risk after it already exists. Here are five signs that model has reached its limit.

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Cloud remediation is rarely as simple as changing a setting. Fixes can break production, require architectural changes or migrations, and conflict with IaC ownership. Prevention takes a different path: enforce the right configuration before deployment, while the resource is still cheap and safe to change. This article explores the challenges of remediating issues safely and effectively, and highlights what teams need to consider when remediation is unavoidable.

Aryon's research reveals millions of misconfigured ephemeral cloud resources, publicly exposed for only moments before being removed. Often, these exposures last only a few minutes, long enough for attackers to discover and exploit them, but too short for traditional CSPM and CNAPP tools to detect. Many of these resources contain highly sensitive information.