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Introduction: The AWS Cloud Security User Group West Africa held 12 study sessions over a two-month period led and supported by 7 speakers and moderators from the community. The purpose of the study sessions was to help participants prepare for the AWS Security Specialty exam. This report provides a summary…

GitHub is a platform that allows developers to collaborate on projects, share code, automate integration and deployments. There are different versions of GitHub that it can be confusing to understand which one is the best for you. …

Azure Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a critical component of any Azure security design. It is responsible for controlling access to resources and services within the Azure platform. …

Microsoft recently made another security improvement for Azure / Azure DevOps users! Previously some Azure DevOps APIs were not associated with a PAT scope. Calling those APIs programmatically required “excessive” full scoped PATs :( With the recent improvement, security teams have no reason not to restrict full scoped PAT creation. So if you’re yet to, start putting processes in place to restrict who can create PATs and also deny the creation of full scoped PATs (Organization Settings → Azure Active Directory)

In securing user identity access to critical Azure resources, one of the useful things to understand are the many ways that a user identity can gain that access. Below are some of the paths. Let me know if there’s a path that I’ve missed. User can be granted permissions to…

🚨 AWS Security Summit Nigeria — 19th November in Lagos! 🚨 ➡️Date: 19th November at 10 am prompt ➡️Register: https://www.meetup.com/aws-cloud-security-user-group-west-africa/events/288208422/ ➡️Venue: Chemline House Training and Event Centre. 7 Obasa Road, off Oba Akran Avenue, behind AP Filling Station Ikeja. ➡️Highlights: 1. Five information-packed sessions and panel discussions delivered by experts!

Microsoft Ignite is back! And with it, comes the opportunity to go through a learning challenge to earn a FREE certification voucher! You can start by clicking on this link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/cloudskillschallenge/ignite/registration/2022??WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003870 This takes you to the challenge site where you can select a challenge that fits best with your learning interests The challenges will start on 12th October but you can pre-register now to be notified. Happy learning and certifying!

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