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Cloud Security & Compliance
Cloud platforms make it easy to ship quickly and just as easy to over-permission everything. Identity and access management is the main control plane: if roles are too broad, any bug becomes an account-wide incident. Compliance frameworks then ask you to prove, over months, that your controls operated as described.
This section covers least-privilege IAM for serverless workloads and how to automate the evidence that auditors request for SOC 2, so that compliance becomes a by-product of good engineering rather than an annual scramble.
Suggested reading order
- 1IAM Hardening for AWS Lambda: Least Privilege in Practice
How to scope Lambda execution roles to exact actions and resources, use conditions and permission boundaries, validate policies with Access Analyzer, and handle secrets safely.
- 2SOC 2 Evidence Automation: Moving from Annual Scramble to Continuous Readiness
What SOC 2 evaluates, the difference between Type I and Type II, which evidence can be collected automatically from cloud and CI/CD systems, and how to run a continuous program.
All Cloud Security & Compliance articles (2)
- 3 min readSOC 2 Evidence Automation: Moving from Annual Scramble to Continuous ReadinessWhat SOC 2 evaluates, the difference between Type I and Type II, which evidence can be collected automatically from cloud and CI/CD systems, and how to run a continuous program.
- 3 min readIAM Hardening for AWS Lambda: Least Privilege in PracticeHow to scope Lambda execution roles to exact actions and resources, use conditions and permission boundaries, validate policies with Access Analyzer, and handle secrets safely.