cloud-security
Safeguard articles tagged "cloud-security" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Cloud Security Architecture: frameworks, components, and ...
Cloud security architecture explained: the frameworks (NIST CSF 2.0, CSA CCM), core components, where Wiz's graph model stops, and how to build one in five phases.
Cloud Security Tools: a comprehensive guide to the 10 types
A breakdown of the 10 cloud security tool categories — CSPM, CNAPP, CIEM, DSPM, and more — and why supply chain security remains the gap even Wiz-style platforms leave open.
Cloud Security Assessment Tools: how to evaluate your pos...
Wiz and other CNAPPs assess your deployed cloud infrastructure — but not the software supply chain that built it. Here's how to evaluate both.
CNAPP vs. CSPM
CNAPP and CSPM answer cloud posture questions — but who verifies what's actually inside your software? A grounded look at Safeguard vs. Aqua Security's approaches.
Agentless vs. Agent-Based Security & Monitoring
Agentless vs agent-based security compared: how Aqua Security's runtime Enforcer model differs from Safeguard's pipeline-native supply chain scanning.
Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) / EDR vs. CDR
CDR catches bad behavior in running cloud workloads. Safeguard secures what gets built before it ever runs. A concrete look at how the two layers — and Aqua Security's CDR — actually differ.
Cloud Application Security Best Practices
Five layers cover most of the risk in cloud apps: identity, secrets, artifact scanning, pipeline gates, and runtime guardrails. Here is how to build each one without slowing delivery.
SSDF (Secure Software Development Framework)
NIST SP 800-218 turned SSDF into a federal procurement gate. Here is what it requires, why attestation is mandatory, and where CNAPP tools like Aqua fall short.
Software Supply Chain Attacks
Software supply chain attacks like SolarWinds, XZ Utils, and polyfill.io exploit trust, not code. Here's how they work and how Safeguard closes the provenance gap.
Dependency Confusion Attack
How dependency confusion attacks exploit registry name collisions to run attacker code inside corporate networks, from Alex Birsan's 2021 research to the 2022 PyTorch breach.
Repojacking
Aqua Security found nearly 37,000 GitHub repos vulnerable to repojacking, including Google and Lyft. Here's how the attack works and how Safeguard catches it.
Container Image Signing
Signing tells you where a container image came from; scanning only tells you what's inside it. Here's how image signing works, how Aqua handles it, and what a complete solution needs.
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