This blog is part three in a series about identity-based access and management of AWS resources. In Part I, we covered how to use OSS Teleport to access Amazon EC2 instances running in private subnets. Part II explained implementing identity-based access via SSO integration with Okta. In Part III, we will guide you through the steps to configure privilege escalation for just-in-time access requests.

Kubectl is the default command-line tool for Kubernetes. It makes it easier to use the Kubernetes API and manipulate Kubernetes resources, allowing you to control Kubernetes clusters and run commands to deploy applications, manage cluster resources, and view logs. This guide will look at how best to integrate the most common and useful kubectl commands into your workflows, as well as provide some helpful tools for further optimization.

The DevOps workflow is all about automation driven by machine-to-machine access. To maintain the automated DevOps pipeline, engineers configure service accounts with credentials such as passwords, API tokens, certificates, etc. The issue is that engineers often fall into the security mispractice of creating long-lived credentials for service accounts to facilitate automation and lessen manual intervention.

This blog post was originally released on 08/26/20. What’s worse than an unsafe private key? An unsafe public key. The “secure” in secure shell comes from the combination of hashing, symmetric encryption, and asymmetric encryption. Together, SSH uses cryptographic primitives to safely connect clients and servers. In the 25 years since its founding, computing power and speeds in accordance with Moore’s Law have necessitated increasingly complicated low-level algorithms.

The four-eyes principle means an activity must be approved by two people, or from Argus Panoptes if the ancient Greeks needed access controls. This principle is commonly used in both routine and non-routine scenarios. On the routine side are “Business Execution” processes. Here the Four Eyes principle is used to stop negative outcomes as the result of poor execution of a regular business task.

In this blog post we're excited to announce Machine ID, an easy way for developers to secure machine-to-machine communications based on X.509 and SSH certificates. But before we go deeper, let’s step back and think about what’s happening during a hacking attempt. Every security breach has two things in common. Addressing cybersecurity challenges requires a solution to both.