AWSBest Practices
MQ Broker Is Publicly Accessible: Risks and Remediation
Learn why a publicly accessible Amazon MQ broker is a serious security risk, how to make it private, and how to prevent it with IaC and policy-as-code.
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SQL Server Auditing Not Enabled on Azure: Why It Matters and How to Fix It
Learn why blob auditing on Azure SQL Server matters, the risks of leaving it off, and how to enable it with CLI, Terraform, and Azure Policy.
AWSBest Practices
Security Group Rule Has No Description: Why It Matters and How to Fix It
Undescribed AWS security group rules slow audits and incident response. Learn how to detect, document, and prevent missing rule descriptions with CLI and IaC.
AzureBest Practices
Scale Set Automatic OS Upgrade Disabled: Why It Matters and How to Fix It
Learn why disabled automatic OS upgrades on Azure VM Scale Sets create patching gaps, and how to enable them with CLI, Terraform, and Azure Policy.
AWSBest Practices
Lambda Function Allows Public Invocation: Why It's Dangerous and How to Fix It
Learn how to detect and fix AWS Lambda functions with public invoke permissions, scope resource policies correctly, and prevent the misconfiguration with IaC and SCPs.
Best PracticesCloud Security
Storage Bucket Has No Retention Policy: GCP Remediation Guide
Learn why GCP Storage buckets need a retention policy, the risks of leaving one off, and how to set, lock, and enforce retention with CLI, Terraform, and org policy.
AzureBest Practices
Public-Facing Azure Load Balancer: Risks and Remediation
Learn what a public-facing Azure Load Balancer exposes, why it's risky, and how to lock it down with NSGs, internal LBs, Azure Policy, and CI/CD gates.
AWSBest Practices
Access Keys Unused for 90+ Days: Find, Fix, and Prevent Stale IAM Credentials
Stale IAM access keys are forgotten credentials attackers exploit unnoticed. Learn how to find, deactivate, delete, and prevent keys unused for 90+ days in AWS.
AWSBest Practices
Domain Auto-Renewal Not Enabled on Route 53: Why It Matters and How to Fix It
Learn why disabled auto-renewal on Route 53 domains risks outages and hijacking, plus CLI, Terraform, and policy-as-code fixes to prevent expiry.
AWSBest Practices
ECR Repository Not Using a Customer-Managed KMS Key
Learn why ECR repositories should use a customer-managed KMS key instead of the AWS-managed default, the risks involved, and step-by-step remediation.
AWSBest Practices
SQS Queue Not Encrypted: Why It Matters and How to Fix It
Learn why unencrypted Amazon SQS queues are a security risk and how to enable SSE-SQS or SSE-KMS encryption with CLI, Terraform, and CI/CD policy gates.
AWSBest Practices
Fixing Unencrypted Kinesis Firehose Delivery Streams
Learn why unencrypted Kinesis Firehose delivery streams are a risk, how to enable server-side encryption with KMS, and how to prevent regressions.
Best PracticesCloud Security
Load Balancer Uses Plain HTTP: Encrypting GCP Backend Traffic
Learn why GCP load balancer backends using plain HTTP are a security risk and how to switch to HTTPS or HTTP/2 with CLI, Terraform, and CI policy gates.
AzureBest Practices
Azure VM Scale Set Has No Instances: What It Means and How to Fix It
An empty Azure VM Scale Set often signals an outage, broken autoscale rule, or forgotten resource. Learn how to detect, fix, and prevent zero-instance scale sets.
AWSBest Practices
IAM Access Analyzer Not Enabled: Find Unintended External Access in AWS
Learn why IAM Access Analyzer should be enabled in every AWS region, how to fix it via CLI, console, and Terraform, and how to enforce it with policy-as-code.
AWSBest Practices
Fixing Plaintext Secrets in ECS Task Definitions
Learn why plaintext secrets in ECS task definitions are risky and how to move them to AWS Secrets Manager or SSM Parameter Store with CLI and Terraform steps.