labs/labs/lab-3/LAB-REPORT.md

Lab 3

Prep

• Gitea set up
• MFA set up
• Add git ignore
• Secrets/Token Management
  • Consider secret-scanning
    • Added git-leaks on pre-commit hook
• Create & Connect to a Git*** reposiotry
  • https://git.dropbear-minnow.ts.net/
• Modify and make a second commit
• Test to see if gitea actions works
• Have an existing s3 bucket

Resources

• Capital One Data Breach
• Grant IAM User Access to Only One S3 Bucket
• IAM Bucket Policies
• Dumping S3 Buckets!

Lab

• Grant perms to ec2 & s3 via IAM roles
• S3 Buckets
  • How to create one
    • Via GUI
    • Via terraform
  • What are they used for?
    • I have some existing context for this. I've used this for work in the past for both archival purposes and for serving public content (images & documents). You would commonly use them for
  • How can they be a juicy security risk?
    • ! A security team will often set alerts around s3 buckets whenever resources are created with no rules set
  • Create and attach a least-privilege policy
  • Associate the IAM role with your running EC2 instance
  • Verify access from the instance --> ec2-vm :> aws s3 ls

Vocab

Identity Access Management

graph LR
  IAMPolicy -- attaches to --> IAMIdentity
  ExplainIAMIdentity[users, groups of users, roles, AWS resources]:::aside
  ExplainIAMIdentity -.-> IAMIdentity
  
  classDef aside fill:#fffbe6,stroke:#bbb,stroke-dasharray: 5 5,stroke-width:2px;

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