Mapping your AWS attack surface

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Steampipe

An Organization must monitor and understand the network perimeter of their cloud estate. Resources comprising the externally facing network components of your cloud attack surface can be broadly grouped into IP addresses, hostnames, and URLs. In this blog post, we will provide step-by-step instructions for mapping the network aspects of the cloud attack surface using Steampipe.

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Nmap

Review the list of IP addresses returned, and if permitted by the terms of service, scan these hostnames for exposed ports and services using nmap or Nessus.

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Amazon S3

A number of AWS services, including CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, and AWS Lambda, produce URLs that can be vulnerable. For example, S3 Buckets exist as URLs on the public internet and can be accessed if the bucket is not properly secured. To get a list of all of the URLs for the public buckets in your cloud environment, you can use this query:.

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Amazon Route 53

To determine the DNS Hostnames used as part of your cloud perimeter, Steampipe can query all of the A records and CNAMEs in your Route 53 Hosted Zones. A records point directly to IP addresses under your control. CNAMEs are references that can point to hosts or other cloud-provider-managed resources. In either case, you need to understand what exists in your environment.

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Amazon CloudFront

A number of AWS services, including CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, and AWS Lambda, produce URLs that can be vulnerable. For example, S3 Buckets exist as URLs on the public internet and can be accessed if the bucket is not properly secured. To get a list of all of the URLs for the public buckets in your cloud environment, you can use this query:.

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AWS Certificate Manager

Note: The above query excludes private DNS for VPCs z.private_zone=false and excludes common CNAMEs needed for ACM and email validation.

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Amazon API Gateway

A number of AWS services, including CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, and AWS Lambda, produce URLs that can be vulnerable. For example, S3 Buckets exist as URLs on the public internet and can be accessed if the bucket is not properly secured. To get a list of all of the URLs for the public buckets in your cloud environment, you can use this query:.

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