When I talk to customers and partners about Cloud Threat Exchange (CTE), I immediately say, “I’m not in marketing, and didn’t see the future—so I misnamed the module. I should have named it Cloud Data Exchange.” Why do I say this? Because, as Netskope and Cloud Exchange have matured, the number of use cases the module can fulfill has naturally grown beyond the initial vision. How so?

Velero is an open-source tool that allows you to backup and restore your Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes. Velero backups support a number of different storage providers including AWS S3. The process of setting up Velero backup with S3 using AWS credentials has been documented by Velero here. However, at the time of this post, there is no official documentation on how to set up Velero using IRSA or IAM Roles for Service Accounts.

How an Account Takeover vulnerability, discovered during a routine customer engagement, became a candidate for responsible disclosure, via the Microsoft Security Research Center Researcher Portal.