cspm
Safeguard articles tagged "cspm" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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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.
Common AWS IAM privilege-escalation paths and how to design least privilege
Rhino Security Labs cataloged 21 distinct AWS IAM privilege-escalation methods in 2018 — most still work today, and most are invisible to a manifest scan.
The AWS misconfiguration cheat sheet: public S3, open IAM, and open security groups
Three misconfigurations — public S3 buckets, over-permissioned IAM roles, and 0.0.0.0/0 security groups — keep causing breaches. Here's the CLI to find and fix each one.
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.
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.
Wiz vs Prisma Cloud: A Neutral CNAPP Comparison for 2026
Wiz and Prisma Cloud are leading cloud-native application protection platforms with different DNA — agentless graph versus a broad code-to-cloud suite. An honest side-by-side, plus where a third option fits.
What Is CSPM? Cloud Security Posture Management Explained
A clear, vendor-neutral explanation of Cloud Security Posture Management — what CSPM does, where it fits, its blind spots, and how build-time scanning complements it.
The Best Cloud Security Tools in 2026
Cloud security spans posture, workloads, identities, and the software you ship. This balanced guide compares Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca, and Sysdig — and is honest about the slice a supply-chain tool covers.
The Biggest Cloud Security Challenges in 2026 (and How to Solve Them)
The seven cloud security challenges that consistently trip up engineering teams in 2026 — misconfiguration, identity sprawl, supply chain risk, drift — with pragmatic solutions.
Best CNAPP Tools in 2026: A Practical Buyer's Guide
A balanced buyer's guide to the best CNAPP tools in 2026 — Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, CrowdStrike, Orca, and Sysdig — with honest strengths, tradeoffs, and where a supply-chain layer like Safeguard fits alongside them.
Best CSPM Tools in 2026: An Honest Buyer's Guide
A balanced comparison of the best CSPM tools in 2026 — Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca, Tenable Cloud Security, and AWS Security Hub — with honest tradeoffs and where shift-left IaC scanning from Safeguard fits.