Cloud Security
In-depth guides and analysis on cloud security from the Safeguard engineering team.
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A Presigned URL Is a Capability You Minted Without Thinking About It
Anyone holding the string can do what it permits, with no identity check, until it expires. Every mistake is a variation of one thing: handing out more capability than intended, for longer than intended.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 S3 bucket security hardening checklist
AWS blocked public access by default in April 2023, yet misconfigured buckets still leak data — here's a concrete checklist and Terraform to close the gaps.
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