Cloud Security
In-depth guides and analysis on cloud security from the Safeguard engineering team.
239 articles
OpenShift Pipelines with Sigstore: A Production Integration Guide
OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton) plus Sigstore gives you keyless signing inside a regulated cluster. The integration patterns are subtle. We map the ones that survive audit.
Azure Defender for Containers: Getting Real Security Value
How to configure and operationalize Microsoft Defender for Containers for ACR scanning, AKS runtime protection, and CI/CD integration.
Best practices for implementing least-privilege IAM polic...
A practical guide to designing least-privilege IAM policies in AWS: permission boundaries, policy patterns, and habits that keep access tight as teams scale.
Cloudflare Code Orange Fail Small: What the Resilience Plan Actually Changes
After November and December 2025 outages, Cloudflare declared Code Orange and shipped a Health Mediated Deployment system, break-glass dependency audits, and graceful-degradation rewrites.
Automating secret rotation with AWS Secrets Manager
A step-by-step guide to configuring AWS Secrets Manager rotation for RDS credentials, deploying the rotation Lambda function, and verifying it actually works.
Using AWS IAM Access Analyzer to find unused and external...
How AWS IAM Access Analyzer surfaces unused permissions and external access risk across your AWS accounts, and where native findings need extra context to prioritize.
How AWS STS temporary credentials reduce long-lived key risk
Long-lived AWS keys sit in code and CI logs for years. AWS STS temporary credentials expire automatically, shrinking the window attackers have to exploit a leak.
AWS ECR Container Scanning: Beyond the Defaults
A deep dive into ECR scanning options, from basic Clair scanning to enhanced Inspector integration, and what most teams get wrong.
Configuring automatic key rotation in AWS KMS
A practical, step-by-step guide to configuring AWS KMS key rotation for customer managed keys, including custom rotation periods, multi-Region keys, and monitoring.
Setting up OIDC federation between GitHub Actions and AWS...
A step-by-step guide to setting up AWS OIDC GitHub Actions federation, from IAM provider setup to scoped trust policies, so CI/CD pipelines never need long-lived AWS keys.
Common AWS IAM misconfigurations that lead to breaches
Capital One and Code Spaces both fell to AWS IAM misconfigurations, not novel exploits. Here's how overly permissive policies and privilege escalation paths cause real breaches.
Best practices for rotating secrets stored in Azure Key V...
A practical, step-by-step guide to Azure Key Vault secret rotation best practices, covering rotation policies, automation, and expiration alerts.
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