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  • Enterprise Management: Secrets Management

    In today’s digital era, protecting sensitive information is of paramount importance. For enterprises, managing secrets—such as passwords, API keys, encryption keys, and certificates—is critical to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of their systems. Secrets Management is a strategic process that involves securely storing, accessing, and auditing these sensitive credentials across the organization. What is…

  • Enterprise Management: Identity

    Enterprise identity management is a critical aspect of organizational security and operational efficiency. It ensures that the right individuals have access to the appropriate resources at the right times for the right reasons. Identity management encompasses a combination of policies, processes, and technologies to manage and secure user identities in an enterprise. By centralizing and…

  • Cyber Attack : Tailgating

    Tailgating, also known as “piggybacking,” is a physical security breach where an unauthorized individual gains access to restricted areas by following an authorized person. Often relying on human trust and behavioral tendencies, tailgating exploits lapses in vigilance to infiltrate secure zones without proper credentials. This low-tech yet potent attack highlights the importance of combining physical…

  • Security Groups

    In AWS, Security Groups act as virtual firewalls to control inbound and outbound traffic to your EC2 instances, ensuring that only authorized access occurs while protecting your cloud infrastructure from potential threats. They are stateful, meaning that if you allow inbound traffic, the response is automatically allowed, regardless of outbound rules. This guide will walk…

  • Identify Access Management: Infra Security POV

    Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a critical pillar in the foundation of infrastructure security, ensuring that the right individuals and entities access the right resources at the right time, for the right reasons. By enforcing granular control over authentication, authorization, and auditing processes, IAM fortifies an organization’s defenses against unauthorized access, insider threats, and…

  • WAF : Infra security POV

    A Web Application Firewall (WAF) serves as a critical security layer within infrastructure security frameworks, designed to protect web applications and APIs from a plethora of cyber threats. It operates at the application layer (Layer 7 of the OSI model) to analyze HTTP/HTTPS traffic, filtering malicious requests before they reach the server. In an era…