HS108: Keeping the (IT) House Clean to Avoid the Plague

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Heavy Strategy

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The evolution of the modern, Internet-driven economy has created the conditions for essentially unbounded Nth-party risks (that is, risks from your suppliers, and risks from your suppliers’ suppliers, and risks from your suppliers’ suppliers’ suppliers, ad infinitum). Nth party risks exist in public clouds, SaaS, software and hardware supply chains, and now in the form... Read more »

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HS108: Keeping the (IT) House Clean to Avoid the Plague

Heavy Strategy

23 minutes 55 seconds

4 months ago

HS108: Keeping the (IT) House Clean to Avoid the Plague

Whether it’s CNAME records pointing to dead endpoints or abandoned cloud storage buckets still mentioned in the makefile or Chef recipe, seemingly innocuous bits of infrastructure that don’t get cleaned up can turn into serious security threats. (Both of these examples are taken from real-life attacks, BTW). When and how and who within IT should... Read more »