Redshift Security: Attack Surface Explained

Originally published by Dig Security. Written by Ofir Shaty and Ofir Balassiano, Dig Security. We have previously discussed (Access and Data Flows, Data Backups and Encryption) security best practices to implement least privileged access on Redshift and reduce the static risk associated with your sensitive data.TL;DR In this post we will show how an attacker can exploit security risks to achieve lateral movement and privilege escalation. This allows the threat actor to leverage weak permissio...

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