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Kat Traxler 🎗️

@nanook.bsky.social

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Your Friendly Cloud Antagonist Proficient at drawing the rest of the 🦉

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Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Nov 18

I’m ok with this being my origin story

Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Apr 24

Hello world

Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · 1d

If I get dupe’d while at the gym during a live hacking competition im never working out again

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 8d

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Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · 8d

Darn.

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Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · 9d

Having a great time at #blackhat #sector.

Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · 16d

Excited to be presenting next week at #SecTor #Blackhat

Come see me at the Cloud Security Summit, September 30th - 10:20am

www.blackhat.com/sector/2025/...

Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Sep 11

🎉🥳My latest whitepaper has been nearly a year in the making and it’s finally out! 🎉🥳

A huge thanks to the many friends and colleagues that participated in the review process.

www.vectra.ai/resources/co...

#gcp #aws #msft #NHI #cloudsecurity #multicloud

Comparing CSP-Managed Machine Identities

Comparing AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft CSP-managed machine identities, risks, and security responsibilities.

www.vectra.ai

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Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Sep 10

lol this

Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Sep 3

In 10 days, I'll be taking the stage in Berlin @fwdcloudsec.org
Challenging intuitive beliefs that Security is defined by what's easily measured.
We'll see that confronting cognitive bias is not just an intellectual exercise; it's an emotional one.

#WYSIATI

fwdcloudsec.org/conference/e...

Schedule | fwd:cloudsec Europe 2025 | fwd:cloudsec

fwd:cloudsec is a non-profit conference on cloud security. At this conference you can expect discussions about all the major cloud platforms, both attack and defense research, limitations of security...

fwdcloudsec.org

Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Aug 29

I need more Co-Star followers

Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Aug 4

Who owns the risk of managed identities in the cloud?
Answer: It depends who you ask 😜

Here’s a very quick TL;DR to a much longer threat model comparing the risk of CSP-managed NHI’s across #AWS #GCP and #Azure

www.vectra.ai/blog/cloud-s...

Cloud Security Grey Zone: Who Owns the Risk of Managed Identities? by Kat Traxler

Threats are not uniform. The most critical threat in one cloud may be a non-issue in another. Defenders and researchers must tailor their strategies, recognizing that there is no “1-to-1” approach to ...

www.vectra.ai

Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Jul 30

I get that. Speaking at #BsidesLV then headed home!

Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Jul 29

See you all in the desert next week
#BSidesLV
#hackersummercamp

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Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Jul 14

No dogs on the furniture.
Enforced strictly.

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Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Jul 11

There’s one company I will judge you unmercifully for working for.
~ Oracle ~

Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Jul 6

Going for 300 next week.✨

Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Jul 3

What a amazing time at @fwdcloudsec.org
The highlight was of course connecting with all my cloud friends.
The low? Two days of a background altitude-induced headache 🤕

Reposted by Kat Traxler 🎗️

fwd:cloudsec @fwdcloudsec.org · Jun 11

We still have a few more sponsor slots for fwd:cloudsec Europe taking place in Berlin, September 15-16!

For more details: fwdcloudsec.org/assets/docs/...

fwdcloudsec.org

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Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Jun 30

Theme of the day
“I raised this issue with MSRC…”
#fwdcloudsec25

Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Jun 30

Quote of the day:
“MSFT has architected themselves into this corner”
#fwdcloudsec25

@ericonidentity.com

Home - Eric on Identity

This blog is about all things identity and identity adjacent. Right now, the focus is primarily on Azure AD and the Microsoft identity world, but it could have potential to expand in the future.

ericonidentity.com

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Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Jun 5

++++ Talk Announcement ++++

Happy to say I'll be speaking this year at #BsidesLV on the risks of CSP managed NHI's in the first of its kind talk:

"The Not So Boring Threat Model of CSP-Managed NHI’s"

Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Apr 27

When you’re on your ~30th plane for the year, you need an emotional support teddy

Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Apr 25

You want a lot subversive?

Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Apr 25

It would mean so much to me to have a turn out of the #cloudSecurity community to my talk at the @cloudvillage-dc.bsky.social
Tuesday | 11:00am

rsa2025.cloud-village.org#day-2

It’s not just as a belt n suspenders talk but a ‘why do we only suspenders’ talk.

It’ll be a little subversive 🖤

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Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Apr 22

I’ll be speaking at the #cloudVillage at @rsaconference.bsky.social opening up Day 2 - leveraging Behavioral Economic Theory to help up understand why we do what we do in Cloud Security.

rsa2025.cloud-village.org#day-2

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Kat Traxler 🎗️ @nanook.bsky.social · Apr 21

Yes!

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