Cloud Security
In-depth guides and analysis on cloud security from the Safeguard engineering team.
239 articles
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.
Building a Multi-Cloud Security Strategy That Actually Scales
A practical framework for securing AWS, Azure, and GCP together — the pillars, the provider differences that trip teams up, and how to unify controls with policy-as-code.
AWS Lambda Security: A Deep Dive Into the Function Attack Surface
An attack-surface walkthrough of AWS Lambda security — execution roles, resource-based policies, environment-variable secrets, function URLs, and dependency layers — with IAM policy and CLI examples.
The Biggest Cloud Security Challenges in 2026 (and How to Solve Them)
The seven cloud security challenges that consistently trip up engineering teams in 2026 — misconfiguration, identity sprawl, supply chain risk, drift — with pragmatic solutions.
Serverless Security Best Practices: Securing the Function Lifecycle
A lifecycle approach to serverless security across AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Cloud Functions — covering the build, deploy, invoke, and runtime phases with IAM, dependency, and event-injection controls.
AWS Security Best Practices for 2026
A practical, code-backed walkthrough of the AWS security controls that actually reduce breach risk in 2026 — identity, data, network, and infrastructure-as-code.
Azure Security Best Practices for 2026
A practical Azure hardening guide covering Entra ID identity, Azure Policy guardrails, network isolation, Key Vault secrets, and Defender for Cloud — with Terraform and az CLI examples.
GCP Security Best Practices for 2026
A hands-on Google Cloud hardening guide: resource hierarchy and Organization Policy, least-privilege IAM, VPC Service Controls, CMEK, and Security Command Center — with Terraform and gcloud examples.
AWS TEAM CVE-2025-1969: Spoofed Approvals in IAM Identity Center
AWS Security Bulletin AWS-2025-004 disclosed an input validation flaw in Temporary Elevated Access Management that let users forge approvals. Here's what changed and how to harden TEAM 1.2.2.
Pandoc CVE-2025-51591: SSRF Against EC2 Metadata in the Wild
Wiz documented active exploitation of Pandoc CVE-2025-51591 to reach the AWS IMDS through iframe rendering. Here is the kill chain and the production controls that contained it.
Code-to-cloud security (CNAPP-style end-to-end protection)
Checkmarx scans code and pipelines well, but stops short of live cloud context. Here is what code-to-cloud security actually requires, with real breach examples.
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