EP60 Impersonating Service Accounts in GCP and Beyond: Cloud Security Is About IAM?

Guest:  Dylan Ayrey, cofounder of Truffle Security Topics: Could you explain briefly why identity is so important in the cloud? A skeptic on cloud security once told us that “in the cloud, we are one identity mistake from a breach.” Is this true? For listeners who aren’t familiar with GCP, could you give us the 30 second story on “what is a service account.” How is it different from a regular IAM account? What are service account impersonations? How can I see if my service accounts can be impersonated? How do I detect it? How can I better secure my organization from impersonation attacks? Resources: Truffle Security blog “GCP Lateral Movement And Privileged Escalation Spill Over And Updates From Google” by Dylan Ayrey “Tutorial on privilege escalation and post exploitation tactics in Google Cloud Platform environments”  blog  “Kat Traxler - Taste the IAM” blogs