The WAF Swiss-Knife

This blogpost showcases some not-so-commonly-advertised benefits and features that modern WAFs have, and how they can be used in an average company to gain benefits ranging from technical to political. It also provides some tips and tricks that I would have liked to know a few years ago. This was originally presented as a talk…

GCP-Pentest-Lab – A reproducible cloud pentesting lab in GCP

During the year 2023, I was a Cloud Security lecturer at FIAP. Long story short, It was an amazing experience. However, when we got to the more “red-team” parts of the course, I had trouble finding educational resources. I wanted a pentesting lab that would allow my students to exploit real-world misconfigurations, without the usual…

GCP – SSH into VMs without Public IP’s via IAP Tunneling (A better tutorial)

Table of Contents Activating IAP with OSLogin (best option) Activating IAP for Project Owners Activating IAP for Admins Activating IAP without OSLogin Introduction IAP Tunneling is extremely useful for acessing resources that don’t have public IPs.In fact, it’s much safer and easier than assigning public IPs and configuring Firewall rules, or setting up VPNs inside…

Google Workspace / Gsuite – Use Authenticator/TOTP as 2FA without needing to register SMS or Physical Token

Introduction For some reason, users are forced to activate at least one 2FA method (SMS, token or cellphone alerts) before being allowed to activate TOTP (via Authenticator). SMS is an insecure method of 2FA, because telephone companies are usually susceptible to social engineering attacks that can transfer your number to an unauthorized user. If you…