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Kat Traxler 🎗️
@nanook.bsky.social
Your Friendly Cloud Antagonist
Proficient at drawing the rest of the 🦉
Pinned
I’m ok with this being my origin story
The former Mpls chamber of commerce CEO has been indicted for embezzlement.

He created a fake company to funnel 300k in payments to which he pocketed.
October 24, 2025 at 5:53 AM
If I get dupe’d while at the gym during a live hacking competition im never working out again
October 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Reposted by Kat Traxler 🎗️
Now THIS is a stamp!

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October 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Having a great time at #blackhat #sector.
October 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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/...
September 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🎉🥳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
September 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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
September 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I need more Co-Star followers
August 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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
August 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
See you all in the desert next week
#BSidesLV
#hackersummercamp
July 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
No dogs on the furniture.
Enforced strictly.
July 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
There’s one company I will judge you unmercifully for working for.
~ Oracle ~
July 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Going for 300 next week.✨
July 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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 🤕
July 3, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Reposted by Kat Traxler 🎗️
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
June 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Theme of the day
“I raised this issue with MSRC…”
#fwdcloudsec25
June 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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
June 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
++++ 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"
June 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
When you’re on your ~30th plane for the year, you need an emotional support teddy
April 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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 🖤
April 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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
April 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Selfie with Keanu Reeves
April 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I’ve done a lot of bs from #delta WiFi. That #teams call was a first
April 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The #CloudSec community knows the answer to the question “if there’s no #CVE is it even a vuln?” 🙃
April 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This white lotus ending was the worst
a woman is making a funny face in front of a max sign
ALT: a woman is making a funny face in front of a max sign
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April 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM