Practical insights on cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and automation.
What failed in the Trivy and tj-actions supply chain attacks. 12 concrete hardening steps with YAML and Terraform code for GitHub Actions pipelines.
Prowler, Trivy, CloudFox, Heimdall, and cloud-audit compared. What each does, where it falls short, and which one fits your workflow.
How to debug IAM Access Denied errors, spot OIDC privilege escalation, and write Terraform fixes using multi-model AI consensus - querying multiple LLMs simultaneously to eliminate hallucinations.
Run a full CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v3.0 assessment from your terminal. 62 controls, 55 automated, per-control Terraform remediation.
One scanner runs 572 AWS checks. Another is unmaintained since May 2024. The third fits your CI with 94 curated checks. Real runs, not marketing.
One missing condition in your IAM trust policy exposes every role to any public GitHub repository. I found this in a live audit. Here is the one-line fix.
AWS cost waste averages 27-35% of cloud spend. 5 patterns I find in every audit: orphaned EBS, infinite CloudWatch retention, idle NAT Gateways, gp2 volumes, oversized RDS. CLI commands and Terraform fixes included.
Three years of Palo Alto VM-Series with GWLB and Transit Gateway. 9 failure modes that cost billable hours: asymmetric routing, MTU, health checks.
Q1 2025 independent test: 12 of 2,028 exploits blocked by AWS Network Firewall. Zero against bypass techniques. Check Point and Palo Alto both above 99%.
Since January 2026, AWS names the exact policy ARN that blocked you. 7-layer evaluation order, STS decode command, and a debugging flowchart.
CyberRatings Q1 2025: AWS Network Firewall blocked 0.59% of 2,028 exploits. Palo Alto scored 99.6%. Full cost and detection comparison.
Root without MFA, public RDS, 900-day-old keys. 17 AWS security misconfigurations I find in almost every account audit.
89 CRITICAL CVEs in production, CEO wants a report by Friday. A framework for translating scan results into executive action.
Validation blocks, preconditions, and postconditions. Three snippets you can drop into any Terraform module today. When each beats the others.
Google silently swapped to Sapphire Rapids without AVX-512 runtime. llama.cpp crashed after 6 months working. The 20-second fix and how to detect it first.