Tarek CHEIKH

🚀 AWS Community Builder | 20+ years in AWS security & cloud architecture. 🏢 Founder @ TocConsulting Paris. 🎤 AWS Summit Speaker. ☁️ 3x AWS Certified. 💻 github.com/TarekCheikh. github.com/localemu

Paris, FRANCE Joined on Jul 3, 2025 https://tocconsulting.fr/

Education

Ecole Central Paris (FRANCE)

Work

Founder of Toc Consulting (https://tocconsulting.fr/)

Tarek CHEIKH

Aug 9

The Verdict, Four Months Later

#agenticai #aws #cybersecurity #security

12 min read

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Tarek CHEIKH

Aug 9

The Agent’s AWS Footprint

#cybersecurity #agents #agenticai #security

12 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Aug 6

Attacking the Agent Itself

#aws #cybersecurity #agents #security

6 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Aug 6

We Tried to Trick the Agent

#agenticai #agents #cybersecurity #aws

13 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Aug 5

What It Catches and What It Misses

#cybersecurity #agents #agenticai #security

14 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Aug 5

How We Measured Detection Rate

#aws #agents #cybersecurity #security

10 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Aug 5

Inside the Engine: What the Logs Reveal

#agenticai #cybersecurity #agents #aws

10 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Aug 5

Advanced Pentesting: VPC and Cross-Account

#cybersecurity #agenticai #security #aws

9 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Aug 2

Pentesting With Credentials

#security #aws #agents #agenticai

12 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Aug 2

Your First Penetration Test

#security #cybersecurity #aws #agenticai

11 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Aug 1

Custom Security Requirements

#agents #aws #security #cybersecurity

12 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Aug 1

Code Reviews and GitHub

#cybersecurity #agenticai #security #agents

16 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jul 31

Design Reviews

#agents #aws #security #informationsecurity

12 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jul 31

Setting Up From Scratch

#agenticai #security #informationsecurity #agents

13 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jul 30

The Web Application Security Survival Kit

#agenticai #security #agents #informationsecurity

20 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jul 30

What Is AWS Security Agent

#agenticai #informationsecurity #agents #aws

10 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jul 19

Chaos Engineering on AWS: Running a Program with GameDays and Continuous Chaos

#resilience #chaosengineering #infrastructureascode #aws

7 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jul 19

Chaos Engineering on AWS: Multi-Region Disaster Recovery and Measuring Real RPO

#infrastructureascode #chaosengineering #devops #resilience

7 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jul 19

Chaos Engineering on AWS: Containers and Serverless with FIS (ECS Fargate and Lambda)

#resilience #chaosengineering #aws #infrastructureascode

6 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jul 19

Chaos Engineering on AWS: Dependency and API Faults with FIS

#devops #resilience #aws #infrastructureascode

5 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jul 19

Chaos Engineering on AWS: Surviving an Availability Zone Failure with FIS and Static Stability

#aws #devops #infrastructureascode #chaosengineering

7 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jul 19

Chaos Engineering on AWS: CPU, Memory, and Network Faults with AWS FIS and SSM

#devops #infrastructureascode #aws #chaosengineering

6 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jul 19

Chaos Engineering on AWS: Graceful Degradation with Circuit Breakers, SQS, and a DynamoDB Cache

#aws #infrastructureascode #chaosengineering #resilience

11 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jul 19

Chaos Engineering on AWS: Database Resilience with Aurora Failover, RDS Proxy, and Read/Write…

#devops #aws #chaosengineering #resilience

16 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jul 19

Chaos Engineering on AWS: Observability and Stop Conditions with CloudWatch and FIS

#resilience #chaosengineering #devops #aws

18 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jul 19

Chaos Engineering on AWS: Your First Experiment with AWS FIS

#resilience #aws #serverless #chaosengineering

21 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jun 24

Run AI Locally for AWS Security Work: The Complete Ollama Guide

#llm #awssecurity #cybersecurity #aws

9 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jun 9

The Code Is Still Yours: Application-Layer Security for AWS Lambda

#cloudsecurity #aws #awslambda #cybersecurity

14 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jun 7

From Findings to Fixed: Lambda Compliance Mapping and Remediation

#cybersecurity #cloudsecurity #awslambda #aws

8 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jun 7

Inside lambda-security-scanner: 19 Checks Across Every Function in Your Account

#awslambda #informationsecurity #cloudsecurity #aws

9 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jun 6

Serverless Doesn’t Mean Secure: The State of AWS Lambda Security in 2026

#aws #cybersecurity #security #awslambda

7 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jun 3

Fixing EC2 Security Issues: A Practical Remediation Guide

#awsec2 #cloudsecurity #security #cybersecurity

8 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jun 3

Building an EC2 Security Scanner: 46 Checks, 137 Controls, Zero Excuses

#security #aws #cybersecurity #awsec2

9 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jun 1

Your EC2 Instances Are Probably Exposed Right Now

#security #cybersecurity #aws #awsec2

5 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jun 1

Build a Free AWS Security Lab on Your Laptop with LocalEmu

#aws #awslambda #devops #awsec2

8 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jun 1

Run real AWS Lambda on your laptop

#softwaredevelopment #aws #serverless #awslambda

4 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jun 1

Meet LocalEmu, the free successor to LocalStack

#emulator #devops #aws #serverless

4 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Mar 29

We Detonated the Real LiteLLM Malware on EC2: Here’s What Happened

#cloudsecurity #cybersecurity #security #cloudcomputing

10 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Mar 29

Anatomy of a Supply Chain Attack: How LiteLLM Was Weaponized in 6 Hours

#malwareanalysis #aws #cybersecurity #cloudcomputing

8 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Mar 17

AWS Security Cards: Free Offensive Security Reference for 60 AWS Services

#cloudsecurity #offensivesecurity #aws #awssecurity

2 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Mar 17

AWS Security Cards: 54 Services, One Card Each

#aws #awssecurity #security #cloudsecurity

2 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Mar 17

The State of AWS Security 2026: Free Whitepaper, No Gate

#agenticai #cloudsecurity #informationsecurity #books

2 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Mar 6

I Just Became an AWS Community Builder … And I Owe It to You

#gratitude #aws #opensource #cloudcomputing

4 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Mar 6

awsmap v1.5.0: Your AWS Inventory Now Has a Brain

#aws #cloudsecurity #security #devops

6 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Mar 6

awsmap — Find Everything Running in Your AWS Account

#cloud #devops #security #developertools

5 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Mar 6

Episode 5: Load Balancer Security Auditor — SSL, Protocols, and Public Exposure

#security #devsecops #aws #cloudsecurity

7 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Mar 6

Cryptex — Because openssl rand -base64 32 Gets Old Fast

#opensource #python #aws #devops

4 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jan 15

The Hidden Backbone of the Internet: Why S3 Security Should Keep You Up at Night

#security #awss3 #aws #infosec

13 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jan 15

The Anatomy of S3 Security: 22 Checks That Stand Between You and a Data Breach

#informationsecurity #security #aws #awss3

10 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jan 15

Building an S3 Security Scanner: From Frustration to Open Source

#security #data #aws #awss3

8 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jan 15

Fixing S3 Security Issues: A Practical Remediation Guide

#awss3 #security #data #informationsecurity

9 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jan 15

I Built a Free AWS IAM Activity Tracker Because CloudTrail Alone Isn’t Enough

#awsiam #aws #informationsecurity #security

6 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jan 11

Episode 2: The MFA Enforcement Scanner — Automating Your Security Blind Spot

#aws #compliance #security #cloudsecurity

8 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jan 11

Episode 3: Public RDS Detective — Finding Your Exposed Databases Before Attackers Do

#dataprotection #cloudsecurity #database #awslambda

9 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jan 11

Episode 4: S3 Exposure Hunter — Preventing the Data Breaches That Make Headlines

#awslambda #aws #cloudsecurity #awss3

8 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jan 11

Episode 1: Hunting Deprecated Lambda Runtimes — Before They Become Problems

#security #devops #awslambda #cloudsecurity

6 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jan 11

AWS Security & Cost Optimization Arsenal: From CLI to Lambda Automation

#aws #cloudsecurity #security #awscostoptimization

3 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jan 11

How Netflix Serves 300+ Million Users Without Owning a Single Server

#aws #microservices #cloudmigration #cloudcomputing

14 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jan 11

Mastering AWS SAM for Python Lambda: The Ultimate Hands-On Guide

#python #serverless #awslambda #aws

19 min read

Tarek CHEIKH

Jan 11

Building a Production-Ready Serverless File Sharing Platform on AWS

#serverless #awslambda #python #cybersecurity

4 min read

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