Cloud Security
In-depth guides and analysis on cloud security from the Safeguard engineering team.
239 articles
Comparing confidential VM offerings across major cloud pr...
A practical comparison of confidential virtual machines across Azure, AWS Nitro Enclaves, GCP confidential compute, and more -- real strengths, real limitations, no marketing gloss.
Cloudflare November 18 2025 Outage: A Bot Management Feature File Doubled in Size
A ClickHouse permissions change caused Cloudflare's Bot Management feature file to balloon past a hard-coded proxy limit, taking the core network down for two hours and ten minutes.
Best cloud workload protection platforms (CWPP)
An honest, no-hype comparison of leading cloud workload protection platforms — evaluation criteria, real vendor tradeoffs, and where supply chain security fits in.
AWS IAM: common vulnerabilities and fixes
Rhino Security Labs catalogs 21+ IAM privilege-escalation paths to full admin — most start with one over-scoped policy nobody remembers writing.
Insecure defaults in Azure ARM templates: a pre-deployment scanning guide
Azure Resource Manager templates don't enforce TLS 1.2 or block public blob access by default — here's how to catch it before terraform apply's Azure cousin ever runs.
Catching Terraform Misconfigurations Before They Ever Reach Apply
Trivy replaced tfsec in 2023 and Checkov ships thousands of policies — here's how to wire open-source Terraform scanners into CI/CD before terraform apply runs.
Designing tamper-evident CloudTrail logging across an AWS organization
AWS CloudTrail's default event history holds only 90 days. A centralized, hash-validated org trail is what actually survives an incident or an audit.
The AWS migration security checklist: IAM, encryption, and network segmentation
A misconfigured WAF and an over-permissioned IAM role exposed 106 million records in 2019 — here's the checklist that prevents a repeat during your AWS migration.
Azure Bicep IaC security fundamentals: secrets, module trust, and policy gates
A @secure() Bicep parameter still leaks in plaintext the moment it's written to an output — a well-documented gap most teams discover only after a deployment history review.
Security metrics and KPIs that actually indicate cloud program maturity
IBM's 2024 breach data puts the average breach lifecycle at 258 days — most cloud security dashboards can't even tell you your own exposure window.
Common AWS IAM privilege-escalation paths and how to design least privilege
Rhino Security Labs cataloged 21 distinct AWS IAM privilege-escalation methods in 2018 — most still work today, and most are invisible to a manifest scan.
The AWS misconfiguration cheat sheet: public S3, open IAM, and open security groups
Three misconfigurations — public S3 buckets, over-permissioned IAM roles, and 0.0.0.0/0 security groups — keep causing breaches. Here's the CLI to find and fix each one.
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