CloudBerry S3 Explorer : Security Assessment

Just a few days ago Amazon S3 team sent an email to many of their customers warning them about the bucket settings with the following subject:

Important Security Notification regarding your Amazon S3 bucket settings

The email was sent to the users with the buckets configured in such as way that allows changing bucket contents by anonymous users causing potential data loss.

This email stirred up a number of discussions such as this one on the Amazon S3 forum and a number of requests for a simple tool to validate the bucket settings and quickly fixed.  we have decided to add a simple Security Assessment report to CloudBerry Explorer freeware that will validate the bucket settings, find the buckets configured for anonymous access and offer a quick way to fix it (or in other words disable anonymous access)

To run the report click Security Assessment in the product menu and then Run Now

or select an item in the context menu.

The new tab will open and start analyzing the buckets. Once it is done,  you will get a windows with a summary report like the one below:  

 The buckets with public read access will show up with the exclamation mark icon. Now you can right click the problematic bucket and click Fix to remove anonymous access.  

You can also fix the permissions for all buckets at once using the Fix All toolbar button

 

We hope you like the new feature and keep using CloudBerry S3 Explorer freeware for other S3 and CloudFront related tasks on Windows platform.

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Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 2.9.2 and later.

As always we would be happy to hear your feedback and you are welcome to post a comment.

CloudBerry S3 Explorer is a Windows freeware product that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://cloudberrylab.com/

CloudBerry S3 Explorer PRO is a Windows program that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://pro.cloudberrylab.com/ It is priced at $39.99  

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How to automate CloudBerry Backup configuration and deployment with an updated Command Line Interface

CloudBerry S3 Backup is a powerful Windows program that automate backup and restore processes to Amazon S3 cloud storage.

In this release we are adding quite some enhancements to our Command Line Interface. the new commands are related to the ability to configure storage accounts, configure backup plans, specify licensing information, automatically upgrade the product and send the diagnostic information.  The additional commands help you fully automate CloudBerry S3 Backup configuration and deployment and integrate it with other routines in your environment.

Here is just a few examples of the new commands:

* addAccount

  add S3 Account:

  cbb addAccount -d TEST#1 -st AmazonS3 -ac AKIAQVDU73GAVWLQ -sk BQEEuYPttR2PpKPTw717LInDhgO8aAUk1m -c jeff -bp test -ssl yes

 

* editAccount

  cbb editaccount -d TEST#1 -n TEST#2 -c jeff.us-west -bp test_cmd -ssl no

* deleteAccount

  cbb deleteaccount TEST#2

* activateLicense

  cbb activatelicense -e jeff-bezos@amazon.com -k d67c83d1-XXX-4c64-XXXX-111yXXXX31f4

  trial: cbb activatelicense -t

 

* releaseLicense

  cbb releaselicense

* showLicense

  cbb showlicense

* addBackupPlan

  cbb addbackupplan -n Plan1 -a TEST#1 -d "C:\backup" -ifm ".txt" -c yes -ea AES128 -ep 345 -rrs yes -every week -at "23:00" -weekday "we, thu"

* checkNewVersion

  cbb checknewversion

  to install new version: cbb checknewversion -i

* sendLog

  cbb sendLog -u jeff -e jeff-bezos@amazon.com -m "backup plan stops"

* deleteBackupPlan

  cbb deletebackupplan -n Plan1

* getBackupPlanDetails

  cbb getbackupplandetails -n Plan1

  cbb getbackupplandetails -id adfa40b2-7d1a-4cf4-992c-1e94fb49b6be

* editBackupPlan

  Change account, add directory to backup, disable compression and encryption, disabled rrs, change schedule:

cbb editbackupplan -id adfa40b2-7d1a-4cf4-992c-1e94fb49b6be -a Account2 -d "C:\backup" -d "C:\Files\documents" -c no -ed -rrs no -every day -at "22:00"

  Rename plan, change mode to simple and disable schedule:

cbb editbackupplan -n Plan1 -nn Plan2 -s yes -sd

More information about the updated command line interface found in our online documentation at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/default.aspx?page=backupcmd

 As always we would be happy to hear your feedback and you are welcome to post a comment.

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Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Backup 2.3.1 and later.

CloudBerry Backup is a Windows program that leverages Amazon S3 storage. You can download it at http://backup.cloudberrylab.com/ . It comes with onetime fee of $29.99 (US) per copy.

CloudBerry Backup for WHS is a Windows Home Server add-in that leverages Amazon S3 storage. You can download it at http://whs.cloudberrylab.com/ . It comes with onetime fee of $29.99 (US) per copy.

CloudBerry Backup Server Edition.  is a Windows program designed to run in server environment that leverages Amazon S3 storage. You can download it at http://server.cloudberrylab.com/ . It comes with onetime fee of $79.99 (US) per copy.

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CloudBerry Explorer: Capacity Charts - Versioning support

As always we are adding features to make it easier for our customers to use the functionality to offer the most compelling Amazon S3 , CloudFront and IAM client on Windows platform.

Less than a week ago we introduced the version of CloudBerry Explorer with Storage Capacity Charts We were surprised to learn how popular this feature turned to be.  Based on your feedback we have also added some Enhancements and now we are glad to introduce support for the versioned objects.

You can learn about Amazon S3 versioning support here and here.

Go to a bucket with the versioning turned on. Select  Capacity Report from the context menu

The Capacity Report will open up. Make sure you have Show Versions selected. The chart will show the amount of space consumed by the objects and by the object versions. Current objects are indicated with the yellow color while object versions with blue.  

The chart below is a good example of the situation where object version consumes  far more space then the objects themselves.

Note: Capacity report with the versioning support are only available for the Amazon S3 version of CloudBerry Explorer as only Amazon S3 supports versioned objects to date.

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Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 2.9.1 and later.

As always we would be happy to hear your feedback and you are welcome to post a comment.

CloudBerry S3 Explorer is a Windows freeware product that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://cloudberrylab.com/

CloudBerry S3 Explorer PRO is a Windows program that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://pro.cloudberrylab.com/ It is priced at $39.99  

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CloudBerry Explorer: Introducing Upload Rules for Google and Azure

Just a few weeks ago we added the Upload Rules feature to CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3. With this release of CloudBerry Explorer for Azure and CloudBerry Explorer for Google we are adding the feature that will make it easier to apply predefined settings to the objects.  Now you can optionally enable encryption and compression for selected buckets only.  You can also configure the predefined set of HTTP headers for every upload. this is useful if for instance you use one of the buckets for data backup while other buckets for serving the files on a website.

The feature works exactly the same way as for CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3 and you can learn more about it at http://blog.cloudberrylab.com/2011/06/cloudberry-explorer-introducing-upload.html

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Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer for Azure 1.3 and CloudBerry Explorer for Google 1.6 and later.

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CloudBerry Explorer: Capacity Charts Enhancements

As always we are adding features to make it easier for our customers to use the functionality to offer the most compelling Amazon S3 , CloudFront and IAM client on Windows platform.

Less than a week ago we introduced the version of CloudBerry Explorer with Storage Capacity Charts We were surprised to learn how popular this feature turned to be.

Anyways, we have quite some feedback and suggestions and  one of the feedback was related to the ability to sort the charts alphabetically and by size. We decided to make a patch and quickly release it.

With the new release you got an option to quickly sort the charts to see for example which bucket/ folder consumes most of the space.  just use the new buttons on the toolbar.

Note: In addition to CloudBerry S3 Explorer Capacity report is also available to CloudBerry Explorer for Azure and CloudBerry Explorer for Google Storage

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Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 2.9 and later.

As always we would be happy to hear your feedback and you are welcome to post a comment.

CloudBerry S3 Explorer is a Windows freeware product that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://cloudberrylab.com/

CloudBerry S3 Explorer PRO is a Windows program that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://pro.cloudberrylab.com/ It is priced at $39.99  

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