cloud-security
Safeguard articles tagged "cloud-security" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Aqua Security vs Prisma Cloud: A Neutral Comparison for 2026
Aqua Security and Prisma Cloud both secure cloud-native workloads, but one grew from container and runtime defense and the other from a broad platform. An honest side-by-side, plus where a third option fits.
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.
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.
OIDC vs Static Credentials in CI/CD (2026 Guide)
Static secrets in CI are the credential most likely to be stolen — as the CircleCI breach proved. OIDC federation issues short-lived, per-run credentials with nothing to leak. Here is how to make the switch.
OWASP A10: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) — A Deep-Dive Guide
Server-Side Request Forgery ranks #10 in the OWASP Top 10 (2021). A deep dive into cloud metadata theft, real CVEs like ProxyLogon, and how to stop SSRF in 2026.
A guide to AWS IAM permissions boundaries for delegated administration
AWS IAM lets any principal with iam:CreateRole and iam:AttachRolePolicy hand themselves admin — permissions boundaries are the one native control built to stop it.
AWS secure REST API vs. S3: where shared responsibility actually splits
S3 buckets are private by default — every public leak is a customer misconfiguration. Capital One's 2019 breach of 106 million records proves the boundary.
The AWS Shared Responsibility Model, Explained With Real Examples
AWS secures the cloud; you secure what's in it. Most breaches — like the thousands of exposed public S3 buckets found every year — happen entirely on the customer's side of that line.
Common Configuration Scoring System (CCSS) explained
NIST published CCSS in December 2010 to score misconfigurations the way CVSS scores bugs — most cloud teams have never applied it.
Shifting Infrastructure-as-Code security left across the SDLC
Terrascan went archived in November 2025 and tfsec folded into Trivy in 2024 — IaC scanning is consolidating fast, and where you run it matters as much as which tool you pick.
The S3 bucket security checklist every AWS team needs
AWS made Block Public Access the default for new S3 buckets in April 2023 — but the Capital One breach exposed 106 million records through IAM, not a bucket setting.
Securing SBOM storage and distribution in cloud environments
GitGuardian found 23.77 million secrets exposed on public GitHub in 2024 alone — an unprotected SBOM repository is the same mistake, just with your dependency tree instead.