cloud-security
Safeguard articles tagged "cloud-security" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
IaC turns infrastructure into versioned code, but one bad Terraform default can replicate a security hole across every environment it touches.
What is IaC Security
IaC security scans Terraform, CloudFormation, and Kubernetes code before deployment—catching misconfigurations before they become breaches.
What is Terraform Security
Terraform security means finding and fixing risks in IaC code, state files, and providers before they become live cloud misconfigurations.
What is Configuration Drift
Configuration drift silently pulls live systems away from their secure baseline — and it's behind some of the largest cloud data exposures on record.
Container Runtime Security in 2026: What's Changed and What Hasn't
Container security has matured significantly, but runtime protection remains a weak spot. Here's a practical guide to what works.
Cloudflare Workers: Supply Chain Threat Model
Cloudflare Workers collapse the build, deploy, and runtime into one surface. That changes the supply chain threat model in ways most teams underestimate.
Workload identity federation
What is workload identity federation? A precise breakdown of keyless cloud authentication, GitHub Actions OIDC, and short-lived credentials replacing static API keys.
EKS Pod Identity vs IRSA: A 2026 Migration Playbook
How to migrate from IRSA to EKS Pod Identity in 2026, including the trade-offs, the operational gotchas, and the cases where IRSA still makes sense.
What is FedRAMP
FedRAMP governs how federal agencies vet cloud software. Here's what it requires, what it costs, how long it takes, and what FedRAMP 20x changes.
AWS EKS Pod Identity vs. IRSA for Supply Chain
Pod Identity and IRSA both give EKS workloads AWS identities. The supply chain implications diverge once you look past the docs.
CIEM (Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management)
What is CIEM? A clear breakdown of Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management, how it differs from CSPM, and why excessive cloud permissions keep piling up.
How to rotate AWS IAM access keys
A step-by-step guide to safely rotate AWS IAM access keys with zero downtime, plus how to turn it into a lasting credential rotation policy.