J Cole Morrison

J Cole Morrison

Hi, I'm Cole. I'm a Software and DevOps Engineer based out of Los Angeles, CA teaching what I know as I go! This is a log of my Tech Guides and Thoughts. Thanks for reading!


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Two Important AWS Security Rules to Remember

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We all know about the 2019 Capital One Breach - 106 million customer data records breached, all on AWS. And so when U.S. senators Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden called for an investigation of Amazon's role and responsibility in this incident, Amazon's respon…

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The Technical Side of the Capital One AWS Security Breach

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On July 19th, 2019 Capital One got the red flag that every modern company hopes to avoid - their data had been breached. Over 106 million people affected. 140,000 Social Security numbers. 80,000 bank account numbers. 1,000,000 Social Insurance Numbers. Pr…

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AWS VPC Core Concepts in an Analogy and Guide

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Introduction In this post we're going to walk through the core concepts of AWS Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) in the context of an analogy. Our main objectives are: a) Talk about each core component from a conceptual / analogy standpoint b) Explain each core…

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AWS IAM Policies in a Nutshell

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Introduction In this post we're going to go through an explanation and tutorial of IAM policies. The long, deep, dark of AWS documentation can sometimes (understatement) overcomplicate concepts. In fact, it's so generally overly wordy and jumbled, and of co…