Cloud Security
In-depth guides and analysis on cloud security from the Safeguard engineering team.
237 articles
AWS S3 Bucket Security: The Complete 2026 Guide
S3 is the single most common source of cloud data leaks. This guide covers block public access, encryption, bucket policies, and how to enforce all three in Terraform.
Cloud Secrets Management: A Lifecycle Guide for 2026
A lifecycle approach to managing secrets across AWS, Azure, and GCP — storage, distribution, rotation, and detection — with Secrets Manager, Key Vault, Secret Manager, and CI/CD examples.
Why You Need a Kubernetes Admission Controller
RBAC decides who can call the Kubernetes API — it has no concept of what a pod spec contains, which is why privileged containers still slip through into clusters every day.
Infrastructure Drift Detection: A Practical Guide for 2026
When running infrastructure diverges from your Terraform, your security scans start auditing a fiction. Here's how to detect, understand, and reconcile configuration drift.
Securing Managed Kubernetes: EKS, AKS, and GKE Compared
A cross-cloud guide to hardening managed Kubernetes — the shared responsibility line, cloud IAM-to-pod integration, network policy, Pod Security Standards, and node hardening across EKS, AKS, and GKE.
Cloud Workload Protection: A Practical Guide to CWPP in 2026
What cloud workload protection (CWPP) actually covers across VMs, containers, and serverless — how it differs from CSPM and CNAPP, what to configure, and where build-time scanning fits.
Terraform Security Best Practices: Hardening Your IaC in 2026
Terraform provisions your entire cloud, which makes it your largest attack surface as code. Here are the practices that keep state, modules, and providers from becoming the breach.
GCP IAM Best Practices: Least Privilege on Google Cloud
Principle-driven Google Cloud IAM guidance: avoiding primitive roles, service account hygiene, Workload Identity Federation, the IAM Recommender, and inheritance — with gcloud and Terraform examples.
What Is CSPM? Cloud Security Posture Management Explained
A clear, vendor-neutral explanation of Cloud Security Posture Management — what CSPM does, where it fits, its blind spots, and how build-time scanning complements it.
Cloud Misconfiguration Prevention: Stop Breaches Before They Ship
Misconfiguration is the leading cause of cloud breaches, and it has no CVE and no patch. Here's a taxonomy of the common ones and a shift-left playbook to prevent them.
AWS IAM Security Best Practices: A 2026 Field Guide
IAM is where most AWS breaches actually happen. This field guide covers least privilege, role assumption, permission boundaries, and the policy patterns that keep blast radius small.
Azure IAM and RBAC Best Practices
A question-driven guide to Azure identity and access management: Entra ID vs Azure RBAC, scoping assignments, managed identities, PIM, and Conditional Access — with az CLI and Terraform examples.