Cross-account event buses are one of the most powerful integration patterns in AWS, and an easy place to make an access policy mistake. A single overly permissive Allow statement can let principals from outside your organization publish events to your bus. With k9-cdk...
AWS IAM Users vs. Identity Center & JIT: Is Your Cloud Access Strategy Secure or Stalling?
This article was originally written by Cloudanix Introduction The way we manage access in AWS has changed IAM dramatically. When many organizations first ventured into the cloud, creating individual AWS IAM users directly within each account was standard practice. Fast...
Effective IAM News – 2025-05-16
NCC Group’s AI Red Team recently published key findings after penetration testing dozens of AI applications. Analyzing Secure AI Architectures reveals that major AI vulnerabilities stem not from model flaws, but from misunderstanding how AI systems interact with...
Effective IAM News – 2025-03-21
Welcome to The Effective IAM Newsletter! Our mission is simple: curate high-impact resources that address real-world cloud IAM challenges for busy security professionals. Each edition features an industry trend, expert insight, or practical tool that you can use. You...
How to test a Python app uses an HTTP proxy to connect to AWS
Some organizations require that all outbound application traffic run through an HTTP proxy so that traffic can be inspected and limited to certain allowlisted domains. But how do you test your application to verify your client libraries have all been configured to use...
