AWS Credential Access Methods for Defenders Explained
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🔑 Understanding AWS Credential Access: A Guide for Defenders. Attackers with knowledge of AWS can exploit various methods to obtain IAM role credentials, making it crucial for defenders to understand these pathways. The article outlines how AWS services, such as the SDK, Lambda, EC2, and others, provide access to credentials through environment variables, instance metadata, and more. It highlights the evolution of credential access mechanisms, including the introduction of IMDSv2 and IAM Roles Anywhere, which allow non-AWS resources to access IAM roles. Additionally, it discusses the importance of AWS Systems Manager and the potential for multiple IAM roles on a single EC2 instance. This complexity necessitates a deep understanding of credential access methods to effectively detect and mitigate potential attacks.
