The Access Keys to Moria

About Jeremy

Jeremy is an engineer who loves to build everything from washing machines to wearables, embedded systems to servers. Recently he’s been crafting security tools and infrastructure as a security operations engineer at Vend. While building things is fun, breaking things is better.

Talk Overview

So you’re half way through your first hack-a-thon, and are firing up your very first server in the… cloud. Pretty neat stuff! That to-do list is coming along nicely.

When you created those… AWS Access Keys… did policies sound boring, and full-access sound way more fun? Did you save them in a file on your Desktop? Are you wondering exactly how many minutes it takes for an access key uploaded to Github to be exploited?

Well I have a solution for you. I’ve made a thing. It makes creating _temporary_ access keys easy, stores them properly, but still lets you use them! If it’s your very first project, or you are in a team of 100, you no longer need to throw money down the bitcoin Mines of Moria.

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