PinnedCloud AdvisorWelcome…Tips, tricks, tools, and musings about Cloud, Risk Management, and CyberSecurity by Les Waters.1 min read·Apr 5, 2022----
PinnedCloud AdvisorArticlesTips, tricks, tools, and musings about Cloud, Risk Management, and CyberSecurity by Les Waters.1 min read·Jan 26, 2022----
Cloud AdvisorThird Party Risk Management ToolsManually identifying and tracking risk is tedious at best. A surprising number of companies, however, track Cyber Risk using spreadsheets…3 min read·Feb 8, 2022----
Cloud AdvisorSecDevOps — not DevSecOps!At first, it was DevOps, which is a set of practices that combines software development and IT operations into the familiar feedback loop…3 min read·Jan 4, 2022----
Cloud AdvisorGetting Started with Cyber Risk ManagementGartner defines IT risk as “the potential for an unplanned, negative business outcome involving the failure or misuse of IT”. Negative…9 min read·Dec 28, 2021----
Cloud AdvisorWho created that VM?With the advent of cloud and self-service, the question of who created a given resource such as a virtual machine often arises. The answer…3 min read·Dec 27, 2021----
Cloud AdvisorExploring Azure Resource Graph with KustoIf you’re a cloud administrator or a security practitioner like me, you often want to see views of resources which aren’t natively…18 min read·Dec 27, 2021----
Cloud AdvisorEnumerating AWS ResourcesAs an Information Security practitioner, the first thing want to know WHERE and WHAT all of your resources are. In public clouds, you would…4 min read·Dec 27, 2021----
Cloud AdvisorCloud Role SegregationRole-Based Access Control (RBAC) in Azure, AWS, GCP, and other clouds provides fine-grained access management (authorization) to cloud…5 min read·Dec 26, 2021----
Cloud Advisor#FinOps — Cloud Financial OperationsIn addition to CyberSecurity, one of my keen areas of interest is Cloud operations and in particular, how to use cloud cost effectively…12 min read·Dec 26, 2021----