A deep dive into AWS S3 access controls – taking full control over your assets

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TL;DR: Setting up access control of AWS S3 consists of multiple levels, each with its own unique risk of misconfiguration. We will go through the specifics of each level and identify the dangerous cases where weak ACLs can create vulnerable configurations impacting the owner of the S3-bucket and/or through third party assets used by a lot of companies.