Cloud Security
In-depth guides and analysis on cloud security from the Safeguard engineering team.
100 articles
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.
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.
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.
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.
Connecting build, deploy, and runtime security into one AppSec lifecycle
The XZ Utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) was found in the build chain; most tools that would have caught it stop at deploy. Here's how to close that gap.
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 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.
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.
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