Implementing the principle of Shift Left in terms of security into your deployment lifecycle can help in finding and fixing vulnerabilities in the early stages making it more efficient to address security issues.
A hands-on introduction and walkthrough of GCP Goat - an intentionally vulnerable GCP environment to help understand common misconfigurations in Google Cloud and how attackers can take advantage of it.
Excessive permissions in cloud accounts can significantly increase the attack surface. It is important to understand what permissions are assigned to various users, groups, roles, service accounts versus what permissions they actually need.
Misconfigured cloud services exposed to the internet is a very common security issue. This video talks about how exposed AWS resources can be discovered and some interesting insights from the speaker Felipe Pr0teus indicating the importance of securing your cloud resources.
