Upwind’s Runtime Vulnerability Management

Denise Ashur September 05, 2023

Upwind’s Runtime Vulnerability Management

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Further Reading

Let Me Speak to Your Manager (Account)

Let Me Speak to Your Manager (Account)

The management account is the most privileged account in any AWS Organization. It controls SCPs, creates and deletes member accounts, manages IAM Identity Center, and is itself exempt from SCPs. Getting its 12-digit account ID is the first step in targeting it. The documented way to get it is organizations:DescribeOrganization - but security-conscious environments restrict…
Configuration-Focus

Introducing the new Configurations experience in Upwind

Compliance should not be a fire drill! Ask a security team how audit season goes and you will often hear a version of the same story. Someone pulls a list of cloud accounts. Someone else exports findings into a spreadsheet that is already outdated by the time it is shared. Screenshots get pasted into a…
What You Could Build If IAM Let You

What You Could Build If IAM Let You: New Policies From Undocumented Condition Keys

In the previous post, we mapped 36 condition keys that the IAM engine evaluates but has never documented. The decomposition model, the service-specific resource identifiers, the organizational metadata - all of it sitting in the request context, invisible unless you probe for it. That post was about discovery. This one is about what you can…
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