TLDR InfoSec · STRATEGIES & TACTICS

REMEDIATING AWS IMDSV1

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Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter

This article provides an overview of the benefits of IMDSv2 vs IMDSv1. It covers detection methods to identify EC2 instances with IMDSv1 enabled and CloudWatch queries to identify access to the service. It also details how to disable the service and place guardrails to prevent instances being launched with it enabled.