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Aakif Shaikh, CISSP, CEH, CHFI, CISA, GWAPT

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Understanding SOC 2 reporting dates

Understanding SOC2 Type 2 reporting dates What is SSAE 18? The full form of SSAE is the Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements. It was developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). It was previously called SAS 70 and SSAE16. SSAE18 is an attestation standard that establishes requirements and provides application…

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Understanding SOC 2 reporting dates

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May 20, 2022

Writing the Cloud Custodian Policy, Validate, Run, and Reporting

A powerful open-source tool to govern your public cloud resources This is a quick story, where we discussed how to install the Cloud Custodian, Write the policy in YAML language, Validate the policy for syntax errors, Run/deploy and Understand the output GZ files. Install the Cloud Custodian on your local machine We have covered the installation of Cloud…

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Writing the Cloud Custodian Policy, Validate, Run, and Reporting

Cloud Custodian

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May 20, 2022

Ingesting Cloud Custodian Logs into Sumo Logic (Part 2)

Collection, Parsing, and Writing SumoLogic Queries In the previous story, we have looked at different components that enable the ingestion of Cloud Custodian logs into Sumo Logic (SIEM solution). In this story, we will look at parsing and writing queries within the Sumo Logic. We will also draw some pretty…

Cloud Custodian

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Ingesting Cloud Custodian Logs into Sumo Logic (Part 2)

Cloud Custodian

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May 20, 2022

Dashboard for Cloud Custodian

An alternate method to get the visuals and build your own dashboards After using the Cloud Custodian for over four years, we can all agree to have missed one prominent feature that is “Dashboard”. Cloud Custodian does not have the front end / GUI where you can easily navigate the…

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Dashboard for Cloud Custodian

Cloud Custodian

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May 20, 2022

Relationship between the Cloud Custodian Lambda Function and the Cloudwatch Event Rule (Part 2)

An alternate approach to monitoring your CW Event Rule Quota In this story, we will be discussing an alternate approach on how we monitor the service quota limit for the CloudWatch Event Rule. …

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Relationship between the Cloud Custodian Lambda Function and the Cloudwatch Event Rule (Part 2)

Cloud Custodian

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May 19, 2022

Turn on and off your AWS resources using the Cloud Custodian

Automatically turn on and off your AWS EC2 instances Cloud Custodian is an open-source tool from Capital One written in python language and comprises of many tools and scripts. It is a powerful tool that allows you to put guard rails in real-time. It is serverless (code runs as a…

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Turn on and off your AWS resources using the Cloud Custodian

Cloud Custodian

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May 19, 2022

Azure- Cloud Custodian Policies for Azure Subscriptions

Example policies for Azure Subscription In this story, we will be discussing the Cloud Custodian Policies related to Keyvault and Redis that can be deployed in Azure Subscriptions. Command to deploy the policy custodian run --output-dir=. sec-n-keyvault-certificate-expiring-in-30-days.yml The below screenshot shows the debug message in the terminal as the policy…

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Azure- Cloud Custodian Policies for Azure Subscriptions

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May 16, 2022

Upgrade your c7n-mailer and other components

step by step instructions on how to upgrade the Cloud Custodian version and other related tools Identifying the old version and upgrading c7n We have already covered this section in another story, please refer here- https://ismsguy.medium.com/upgrade-cloud-custodian-to-the-latest-version-4a2aab465a93 Identifying the old version and upgrading c7n-mailer Go to the path where Cloud Custodian is installed.

Cloud Custodian

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Upgrade your c7n-mailer and other components

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May 9, 2022

AWS Resources Inventory using Cloud Custodian

Use Cloud Custodian to count the resources and visualize in the Sumo Logic In no time, you will realize that your organization has hundreds of AWS accounts and several hundreds of resources within it. It is very important to know the inventory, ownership, and purposes of those resources. For the…

Cloud Custodian

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AWS Resources Inventory using Cloud Custodian

Cloud Custodian

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May 8, 2022

Cloud Custodian Policy Health Checks

An easy way to diagnose if the Cloud Custodian policies are in good health! Now that you have hundreds of Cloud Custodian policies deployed to your AWS cloud environment. It is very important to know that those policies are working as designed and operating without giving any errors. This is…

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Cloud Custodian Policy Health Checks

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Aakif Shaikh, CISSP, CEH, CHFI, CISA, GWAPT

Aakif Shaikh, CISSP, CEH, CHFI, CISA, GWAPT

Over 18 years of experience in a wide variety of technical domains within information security including information assurance, compliance, and risk management.

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