cloud-misconfiguration
Safeguard articles tagged "cloud-misconfiguration" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
26 articles
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.
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.
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.
Cloud misconfiguration as the top cause of cloud breaches
Capital One, Toyota, and a single Azure endpoint that leaked 65,000 companies' data all trace back to one root cause: cloud misconfiguration.
The cost of cloud misconfiguration breaches
New breach-cost data shows cloud misconfigurations now cost millions per incident and take months to detect — here's what's driving the trend and how to close the gap.
Cloud misconfiguration: causes and prevention
Cloud misconfiguration causes most cloud breaches, from Capital One to Toyota. Learn its root causes, real incidents, and how Safeguard prevents it.
Snyk and HashiCorp Terraform Cloud partnership
Snyk's HashiCorp Terraform Cloud integration gates IaC risk at plan time — here's what it covers, what it misses, and how reachability closes the gap.
Benefits of Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
CSPM cuts breach risk and audit time by catching cloud misconfigurations before attackers do. See the data on cost, MTTR, and where Prisma Cloud falls short.