cloud-security
Safeguard articles tagged "cloud-security" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Comparing confidential VM offerings across major cloud pr...
A practical comparison of confidential virtual machines across Azure, AWS Nitro Enclaves, GCP confidential compute, and more -- real strengths, real limitations, no marketing gloss.
SSRF via webhooks explained
Webhook SSRF turns a trusted callback feature into an internal network foothold. Here is how the attack works, real incidents, and how to actually fix it.
Terraform infrastructure-as-code misconfiguration explained
Terraform misconfigurations — not zero-days — cause most cloud breaches. Here's how they happen, real incidents they caused, and how to catch them pre-deploy.
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.
Best cloud workload protection platforms (CWPP)
An honest, no-hype comparison of leading cloud workload protection platforms — evaluation criteria, real vendor tradeoffs, and where supply chain security fits in.
Catching Terraform Misconfigurations Before They Ever Reach Apply
Trivy replaced tfsec in 2023 and Checkov ships thousands of policies — here's how to wire open-source Terraform scanners into CI/CD before terraform apply runs.
Insecure defaults in Azure ARM templates: a pre-deployment scanning guide
Azure Resource Manager templates don't enforce TLS 1.2 or block public blob access by default — here's how to catch it before terraform apply's Azure cousin ever runs.
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.
Designing tamper-evident CloudTrail logging across an AWS organization
AWS CloudTrail's default event history holds only 90 days. A centralized, hash-validated org trail is what actually survives an incident or an audit.
Azure Bicep IaC security fundamentals: secrets, module trust, and policy gates
A @secure() Bicep parameter still leaks in plaintext the moment it's written to an output — a well-documented gap most teams discover only after a deployment history review.
The AWS migration security checklist: IAM, encryption, and network segmentation
A misconfigured WAF and an over-permissioned IAM role exposed 106 million records in 2019 — here's the checklist that prevents a repeat during your AWS migration.
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