Serverless Security and Development

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Miguel A. Calles MBA

Miguel A. Calles is the author of the Serverless Security book, and a Cybersecurity engineer who works on serverless and cloud computing projects.

How to use CryptoJS and Cookies to Work with Secrets in Postman

Feb 4, 2021 4 min read

In my previous article, we explored how to use cookies in Postman to store your secrets. Depending on your security requirements, you may need to use cryptography. This is where CryptoJS can help. Script to Generate an Encrypted Secret We can use a l...

Using Many Email Addresses to Reduce Your Cybersecurity Risk

Jan 10, 2021 4 min read

The days of having one email address are over. We are putting all our eggs in one basket by having one address. If someone hacks that account, we could be in big trouble. Guessing An Email Address Guessing an email address can be easy. We can guess a...

Finding Winning Stocks with Web Scrapers, and Serverless (AWS Lambda and DynamoDB)

Jan 4, 2021 6 min read

A few friends and I chat about stocks, share ideas, and encourage each other. A few months ago, I realized we needed some automation to help us find winners. I chose to use a serverless solution to build this system. There are many good stocks and fi...

Serverless Best Practices on AWS

Dec 13, 2020 9 min read

Do your serverless deployments go like this? It’s so easy to quickly deploy serverless resources. Because of this, we should follow best practices to protect our resources, applications, and cloud service provider accounts. Here are some best practic...

Browser Extensions Can Have Malware: My Shock of “The Great Suspender” Chrome and Edge Extensions

Nov 22, 2020 6 min read

For a couple of weeks, I have been pondering whether my browser extensions could be a source of vulnerabilities. It turns out they can! A couple of days ago, I received a notification from the Microsoft Edge browser warning me about malware in one of...

Minimize How Long an Amazon Fire TV Device Can Listen To You

Nov 11, 2020 3 min read

Recommendation for powering an Amazon FireTV Device Amazon Fire TV devices are pretty nice, but there is the risk they listen to you. In this super short article, I will share how you can minimize the amount of time this device (or a similar device) ...