Recent Articles on the tecRacer AWS Blog

Be Aware of EBS Direct APIs

Recently, I blogged about a security incident where CloudTrail was not set up to log S3 data events. But while this is the most common type of data events, there are some more. And one of them has really scary implications. But good news: you can protect yourself about that.

How To Hybrid! - AWS Systems Manager Patch Management

As AWS Cloud adoption becomes more widespread throughout the industries, challenges arise how to govern IT resource usage and implement a coherent management for systems across on-premises and the AWS Cloud. This blog post gives insights in how the AWS offered Systems Manager capabilities could be extended from the cloud environment to your hybrid and on-premises environments.

CloudTrail Data Events

In today’s post, I will talk about a hacking investigation I recently took part in. We will look into what went wrong, what the attackers did, and how we can improve detection and prevention to manage such incidents better.

Insider Story - Matthias Jansky

We, as tecRacer, thrive on our individual and unique employees. In our series “Insider Stories” Matthias will tell you how he found his way to the company as well as how he experiences working for tecRacer.

Map out your IAM with PMapper

Writing “Least Privilege” policies is an art in itself, but it inevitably leads to a large number of JSON-based policies in your accounts. As one of the rules of good security is “low maintainability = low security”, let’s dive into tools which can show us risks inside our policies - which might even result in paths to administrative privileges!

Secure Backup Solution for OnPremises and Hybrid Environments

With current ransomware attacks it is important to have a reliable backup strategie in place. With Veeam Backup & Replication you are able to backup your on-premises and hybrid environments and extend your storage solution with AWS Cloud capabilities to increase capacity and archiving storage with AWS S3 service.