Cloud Security
In-depth guides and analysis on cloud security from the Safeguard engineering team.
239 articles
The most common cloud misconfigurations, and the queries that catch them
Cloud misconfiguration was the initial attack vector in 15% of breaches in IBM's 2024 study — tied with phishing. Here are the six patterns and the queries to find them.
Detecting and remediating Terraform and CloudFormation drift
Terraform's own drift check can return an ambiguous exit code — here's how declared IaC state quietly diverges from live cloud resources, and how to catch it.
Policy as Code: Enforcing Cloud Security Guardrails in CI/CD Instead of Manual Review
OPA reached CNCF Graduated status in January 2021 — yet most teams still catch misconfigured IAM roles by eyeballing a pull request.
Policy-as-code for Terraform: testing before you ever run apply
Checkov, OPA, and tflint each catch different Terraform mistakes — chained into CI before apply, they turn a review comment into a hard gate.
Terraform AWS provider misconfiguration trends
Terraform's AWS misconfiguration trends in 2026: how provider v4.0 migration gaps, wildcard IAM policies, and state drift keep exposing production infrastructure.
Kubernetes ingress controller vulnerability roundup
Ingress-nginx, Apache APISIX, and other Kubernetes ingress controllers have racked up critical CVEs since 2021 — here's what actually happened.
AWS IAM policy misconfiguration vulnerability patterns
Wildcard policies, PassRole chains, and trust-policy gaps drive most AWS IAM breaches. Here's how these misconfiguration patterns actually get exploited.
Azure storage account misconfiguration report
A breakdown of what drives Azure storage misconfiguration reports, from the 2023 Wiz-disclosed 38TB leak to SAS token and public access risks in 2025.
GCP IAM privilege escalation paths explained
Attackers escalate GCP privilege using IAM actAs chains, default Editor service accounts, and Cloud Build tokens -- no exploit code required.
Cloud-Native Application Security: Securing the Full Stack in 2026
Cloud-native apps spread risk across code, containers, and infrastructure-as-code. This guide maps the full attack surface and a layered strategy to secure all of it.
Cloud-Native Supply Chain Security: From Source to Runtime
A stage-by-stage guide to securing the cloud-native software supply chain — source, dependencies, build, artifacts, and deploy — using SBOMs, SLSA provenance, signing, and admission policy.
Automating Security Controls on Google Cloud
Binary Authorization can block every unsigned container from reaching GKE or Cloud Run — but only if your pipeline is wired to sign images the moment they pass scanning.
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