cloud-misconfiguration
Safeguard articles tagged "cloud-misconfiguration" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
26 articles
S3 bucket misconfiguration vulnerabilities explained
S3 misconfigurations have exposed hundreds of millions of records in breaches from Deep Root Analytics to Capital One. Here's how they happen and how to catch them.
Best cloud security posture management (CSPM) tools
A practical buyer's guide to CSPM tools: evaluation criteria that matter, a fair comparison of six leading vendors, and where supply chain security fits in.
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.
Terraform Registry module vulnerability trends
Registry-wide analysis shows a rising share of Terraform modules carry stale provider pins and insecure defaults — here's what's driving it and how to respond.
Know your cloud environment: a practical asset inventory methodology
Gartner projects that through 2025, 99% of cloud security failures will be the customer's fault — almost always because an asset nobody tracked got misconfigured.
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.
Western Sydney University 2025 Breach: Third-Party Cloud Misconfiguration
From June to September 2025 an attacker quietly accessed a third-party cloud system linked to Western Sydney University and exfiltrated data on 10,000 students. We unpack the supply-chain anatomy.
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.
High-profile AWS breaches: lessons learned
Capital One's 2019 breach exposed 106 million records through a single SSRF call to the EC2 metadata service — here's the exact control that would have stopped it.
Scanning Terraform code for security misconfigurations
Public S3 buckets, open security groups, and wildcard IAM policies are the recurring Terraform mistakes behind most cloud breaches — here's how to catch them before apply.
Detecting drift between IaC and live cloud infrastructure
IaC and live cloud state drift apart within days of every deploy. Here's how drift detection actually works, why it matters, and how to close the gap fast.
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) explained
CSPM explained: what it checks, why Gartner created the category in 2019, how it differs from CWPP/CNAPP, and why raw findings alone don't stop breaches.
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