One of the highest-risk areas in modern cloud environments is Kubernetes. During my time at SWBC, I integrated AWS IAM identities with Kubernetes RBAC across multiple EKS clusters for PCI DSS-compliant financial microservices. Getting this wrong can expose an entire fleet of workloads with a single compromised pod. Here is the exact hardened checklist I…
Supply chain attacks (SolarWinds, Log4j, XZ Utils) made one thing crystal clear: your dependencies and container images are now the primary attack surface. At SWBC I automated secure supply chain scanning across Snyk, Trivy, Tenable, and Mend (WhiteSource) for thousands of third-party libraries and AWS ECR container images. At Celink I led the full migration…
After architecting and hardening AWS environments for financial services, healthcare, and SaaS companies over the last 15+ years, I’ve seen the same pattern repeat: teams focus on “cool” new services while missing the fundamentals that actually survive audits and real attacks. Here is the exact AWS Cloud Security Checklist I run through on every new…