How Hackers Can Help Reduce Your Organization's Application Risk on AWS

This write-up summarizes a HackerOne and AWS panel and CTF that focused on SSRF vulnerabilities and cloud misconfiguration, noting that many participants lacked SSRF awareness, bounties for SSRF rose significantly, and that realistic, previously-exploited scenarios improve learning; speakers emphasized security-by-design, threat modeling, and hacker-powered continuous testing to find and remediate vulnerabilities early in the SDLC.