[HN Gopher] IAM Policies: Good, Bad and Ugly
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       IAM Policies: Good, Bad and Ugly
        
       Author : rolldeez
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2021-04-13 17:57 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | txase wrote:
       | :wave: I'm the author of the post! Anyone have any IAM horror
       | stories of their own? Or examples of amazing IAM policies that
       | really show their power?
        
         | ryancoleman wrote:
         | I continue to be surprised by the so-called "S3 Bucket
         | Negligence Award" which feels like the intersection of IAM and
         | S3 configuration ugliness that result in so many public horror
         | stories like: - https://www.upguard.com/breaches/attunity-data-
         | leak - https://www.lastweekinaws.com/newsletter/reinforce-
         | meant-lea...
        
           | txase wrote:
           | It's hard to get it right, though that's not to shift blame
           | away from those who spilled info about others because they
           | couldn't figure out how to lock buckets and objects down.
           | 
           | One way is to scaffold in bucket policies that ensure data is
           | always: encrypted at rest, encrypted in transit, and locked
           | down so objects can't be public. People can override these if
           | needed, but because these settings are the default most
           | people don't know about them or know how to set them up.
           | 
           | At Stackery we always scaffold in S3 Buckets with these
           | settings in place, while giving you the ability to check
           | boxes to turn on website hosting or allow contents to be
           | publicly available. That helps ensure people configure things
           | right the first time and every time!
        
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