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The episode discusses the risks associated with abandoned cloud storage, particularly AWS S3 buckets, and offers strategies for mitigation.

Send us Fan Mail That forgotten cloud storage you stopped thinking about months ago can become a real attack path today. We start with a simple but dangerous scenario: abandoned AWS S3 buckets and other orphaned cloud storage that can be re-registered, repurposed, and used to serve malicious content to systems that still “trust” the old source. We walk through why this turns into a supply chain-style problem, what signals to look for, and the practical mitigations that matter most: proper dec...

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Host: Shon Gerber

Topics covered

• Security Assessment
• Cloud Storage Risks
• Abandoned AWS S3 Buckets
• Supply Chain Problems
• Mitigation Strategies

Keywords

• cloud storage
• AWS S3
• security assessment
• supply chain
• mitigation strategies
• cybersecurity
• attack path

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Organizations: AWS

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