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Prowler vs ScoutSuite vs cloud-audit: checks, remediation, attack chains, and CI/CD support compared. Find which free AWS security scanner fits your workflow.
Check if your GitHub Actions OIDC trust policy is secure. One missing IAM condition lets ANY repo assume your AWS role. 60-second CLI check + Terraform fix included.
AWS cost waste averages 27-35% of cloud spend. 5 patterns I find in every audit: orphaned EBS, infinite CloudWatch retention, idle NAT Gateways, gp2 volumes, oversized RDS. CLI commands and Terraform fixes included.
Asymmetric routing, fail-open bypass, appliance mode, overlay routing, and the cost stack nobody budgets for.
CyberRatings tested AWS Network Firewall 3 times - 0.59% exploit block rate, 0% after bypass. What the results mean and what to do.
7 real causes of Access Denied, the 2026 feature showing exact policy ARN, and STS decode-authorization-message for debugging.
I deployed AWS Network Firewall and Palo Alto VM-Series in production. NFW costs $747/mo but has an SNI bypass. VM-Series costs 4x more but catches everything. Full comparison.
Root without MFA, public RDS, 900-day-old keys. 17 AWS security misconfigurations I find in almost every account audit.
89 CRITICAL CVEs in production, CEO wants a report by Friday. A framework for translating scan results into executive action.
Cloud Run AI service crashed with SIGILL after 6 months. Root cause: Google swapped CPUs with fake AVX-512 support. Fix inside.
How to use variable validation blocks, preconditions, and postconditions to catch Terraform misconfigurations before apply. With real-world examples.