Hacking Serverless Applications:A Treasure Map for Uncharted Waters

SANS PenTest HackFest 2022

Speaker: Tal Melamed, Sr Director Cloud Native Security Research, Contrast Security

Serverless technology eliminates the need for development teams to provision servers, and it also results in some security threats being passed to the cloud provider. This frees up developers to concentrate on building logic and producing value quickly. But cloud functions still execute code. If the software is written poorly, it can lead to a cloud disaster.

While Serverless code contains a mixture of cloud …

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