Ep. 28 Kinnaird McQuade - Policy Sentry and Cloudsplaining, Stelligent Book Club (Episode 28)

In this episode, Kinnaird McQuade, Lead Cloud Security Engineer at Salesforce, joins us to talk about his tools Cloudsplaining and Policy Sentry. Policy Sentry provides a framework for writing IAM policies to make it easier to create least privilege policies. Cloudsplaining can help find policies that may allow more access than required. Keith Monihen joins hosts Scott Alexander and Shaug Evans this episode to talk about the Stelligent book club and how it helps create a culture of learning and shared connection among employees.

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Episode Notes

Hosted by Scott Alexander (@salexpdx) and Shaug Evans (@ohshaughnessy) Interview Guest: Kinnaird McQuade @kmcquade3 Stelligent Guest: Keith Monihen @KeithMonihen

Episode Timeline 00:00 Podcast Introduction and welcome 01:00 Kinnaird McQuade interview 28:15 Discussion of Interview with Scott, Shaug, and Keith 33:00 Recent Blog Post 36:50 Stelligent Book Club 48:00 Closing Contact Information

Relevant Links CloudSplaining https://cloudsplaining.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Policy Sentry https://policy-sentry.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Kinnaird McQuade Website https://kmcquade.com/ Open Source at Salesforce https://opensource.salesforce.com/ Salesforce Careers https://www.salesforce.com/company/careers/ AWS Nuke - https://github.com/rebuy-de/aws-nuke Cloud Custodian - https://cloudcustodian.io/ Cloud Tracker - https://github.com/duo-labs/cloudtracker

Blog posts: Trend Micro Smart Scan: https://stelligent.com/2020/05/22/is-my-container-image-secure-ci-cd-container-scanning-using-trend-micro-deep-security-smart-check-and-aws-codepipeline/ Amazon Inspector Introduction: https://stelligent.com/2020/05/08/introduction-to-amazon-inspector/ Implementing Amazon Inspector in Automated AMI Pipelines: https://stelligent.com/2020/05/08/implementing-amazon-inspector-in-automated-ami-pipelines/ CFN Leaprog: https://stelligent.com/2020/05/15/generating-least-privileged-iam-roles-for-cloudformation-and-service-catalog-with-cfn-leaprog/ Paul Duvall’s Forbes Article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/05/01/exponential-cloud-security/

Books:

The Year without Pants - https://www.amazon.com/Year-Without-Pants-WordPress-com-Future-ebook/dp/B00DVJXI4M People Centric Security - https://www.amazon.com/People-Centric-Security-Transforming-Enterprise-Culture-ebook/dp/B015EZ2PT4 Accelerate - https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Technology-Organizations-ebook/dp/B07B9F83WM Clean Code - https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsmanship-ebook/dp/B001GSTOAM Clean Architecture - https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Architecture-Craftsmans-Software-Structure-ebook/dp/B075LRM681

Intro/Outtro music - Atmosphere by Mi77er https://soundcloud.com/mi77ermusic/atmosphere-original-mix-progressive-ambient-house