Upwind’s Runtime Vulnerability Management
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Further Reading
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…
Show Me the Context: Building the Full Request Context for AWS IAM
This post was written in early August 2026, ahead of our fwd:cloudsec Europe talk. On August 25, AWS launched the Access Troubleshooter (currently in public preview), a first-party feature that surfaces the request context for denied requests. We've updated this post to account for it. When the IAM engine evaluates your request, it matches your…
Building the Future: Introducing the Upwind AI Security Lab
I have always been fascinated by what comes next. Growing up, I watched technology reinvent itself again and again, from early gaming and the dot-com era to SaaS, cloud, and modern software development. I remember wondering when I would get the chance to help build what came next. At the time, I was mostly watching…