Published inCloud Security·PinnedMember-onlyCreating an Initial Admin Role Credentials For Automation With MFAACM.376 Leveraging the “adminroot” credentials to deploy initial resources for an organization — Part of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. AWS Organizations. IAM. Deploying a Static Website. The Code. Free Content on Jobs in Cybersecurity | Sign up for the Email List In the last post I deployed an Organization with CloudFormation for a new or existing organization so we can use…Administrator7 min readAdministrator7 min read
Published inCloud Security·PinnedAutomating Cybersecurity Metrics (ACM)A series of blog posts on cybersecurity metrics and security automation — One of my series on Cybersecurity. Also AWS Security. Free Content on Jobs in Cybersecurity | Sign up for the Email List GitHub Repo (In Progress): SecurityMetricsAutomation/README.md at main · tradichel/SecurityMetricsAutomation Contribute to tradichel/SecurityMetricsAutomation development by creating an account on GitHub.github.comCybersecurity Metrics37 min readCybersecurity Metrics37 min read
Published inCloud Security·PinnedCybersecurity Author, Teri RadichelPublications and Presentations by Teri Radichel — Free Content on Jobs in Cybersecurity | Sign up for the Email List Teri Radichel is a professional cybersecurity speaker, trainer, and author. The following are links to some of her past presentations, articles, blog posts, books, and security classes. …Cloud Security5 min readCloud Security5 min read
Published inCloud Security·2 hours agoMember-onlyBack to the Basics in Cloud Product DevelopmentIf your basic functionality doesn’t work, the whiz-bang features don’t matter — I’ve been thinking about this recently and just a quick note on a topic that’s been on my mind. As cloud platforms attempt to deploy and develop more and more new and exciting features, some of the top people in your company want to move over to what is “new…Cloud7 min readCloud7 min read
Published inBugs That Bite·1 day agoMember-onlyTrying to Create A Group With AWS CLI: Something about Access Key needs a subscription and opt inBeen running. script repeatedly today to try to resolve one strange error after another. Then I get this message when I rerun the script for a whole new stack. The access key needs a subscription. I can’t remember if it was the same run or the next when it said…Cloudformation2 min readCloudformation2 min read
Published inBugs That Bite·1 day agoMember-onlyCloudFormation: Two Resources With Same Name — One Wipes Out The Other Even Though Condition Indicates to Not Deploy ItThis could be by design but it doesn’t make sense to me. Condtion1: True Condtion2: False Resource: Bucket: BucketName Condition: Condition1 Logging: Configured Bucket: BucketName Condition: Condition2 Logging: NoLogging It seems like in the above scenario the first bucket should deploy but neither do. Follow for updates. Teri Radichel |…Cloudformation2 min readCloudformation2 min read
Published inBugs That Bite·1 day agoMember-onlyCloudFormation Not Recognizing Template Changes When Condition RemovedI have this template where I previously had a condition but I removed it. See the NoLogs condition below. Cearly doesn’t exist here and CloudFormation is not picking up the change.Bug2 min readBug2 min read
Published inBugs That Bite·1 day agoMember-onlyCloudFormation Condition Hides ErrorsS3 Bucket had an error which wasn’t reported — simply got no resources — I was banging my head against the wall on this one and it wasted a massive amount of time. An error occurred (ValidationError) when calling the CreateChangeSet operation: Unresolved… It was actually a condition hiding a different errormedium.com Finally I took commented out a condition. Then finally I just removed it altogether.Bug2 min readBug2 min read
Published inBugs That Bite·1 day agoMember-onlyAn error occurred (ValidationError) when calling the CreateChangeSet operation: Unresolved resource dependencies [Bucket] in the Outputs block of the templateIt was actually a condition hiding a different error — I was getting this error because although I have a logical ID of bucket in my CloudFormation template, it was not deploying because I have a condition associated with it. If the condition is true, I deploy one version. If it is false, I deploy a different version. The problem…Bug2 min readBug2 min read
Published inBugs That Bite·1 day agoMember-onlyAWS S3 Bucket CloudFormation Deployment Stuck in Review in Process With Invalid OutputWhen deploying an S3 bucket if it fails due to the outputs being malformed (like I forgot a sub…) first of all the error message on the missing sub could be clearer but seconding the stack gets stuck in “review in progress” and you can’t redeploy it. I have some…Error Message2 min readError Message2 min read