cspm
Safeguard articles tagged "cspm" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Top AWS security misconfigurations and how to fix them
A practical AWS misconfigurations cheat sheet — IAM, S3, security groups, logging, and snapshots — with real breach data and exact fixes.
The AWS shared responsibility model explained
AWS secures the cloud; you secure what's in it. Here's exactly where that line falls across EC2, RDS, Lambda, and EKS -- with real breach examples.
Top 10 Azure security risks and prevention
Real Azure breaches — BlueBleed, ChaosDB, OMIGOD, Midnight Blizzard — trace back to storage misconfigs, identity sprawl, and exposed secrets, not zero-days.
GCP IAM security best practices
GCP IAM misconfigurations, not exploits, cause most cloud breaches. Here is how to enforce least privilege, lock down service accounts, and audit access.
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) explained
CSPM explained: what it checks, why Gartner created the category in 2019, how it differs from CWPP/CNAPP, and why raw findings alone don't stop breaches.
Cloud misconfiguration as the top cause of cloud breaches
Capital One, Toyota, and a single Azure endpoint that leaked 65,000 companies' data all trace back to one root cause: cloud misconfiguration.
Best CNAPP Platforms in 2026: An Honest Buyer's Guide
An honest, opinionated guide to the best CNAPP platforms in 2026 — Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, CrowdStrike, Aqua, Orca, and Sysdig — plus where the cloud-native security category is heading on AI-SPM, runtime, and supply chain.
CNAPP Security: What It Actually Covers
CNAPP bundles CSPM, CWPP, and vulnerability scanning under one label, but the exact scope varies widely by vendor — here's what a genuine CNAPP platform actually needs to cover.
Cloud misconfiguration: causes and prevention
Cloud misconfiguration causes most cloud breaches, from Capital One to Toyota. Learn its root causes, real incidents, and how Safeguard prevents it.
Wiz vs Orca: CNAPP Field Test 2026
Google's $32B Wiz acquisition closed in March 2026. We ran a 90-day bake-off between Wiz and Orca on the same AWS+Azure estate and graded the agentless CNAPP race honestly.
CNAPP vs CSPM: what's the difference
CSPM checks cloud configs, CNAPP consolidates workload security -- neither verifies what's inside your software. Safeguard vs Trivy (Aqua), compared.
CNAPP vs. CSPM: how the categories relate
CSPM is a module inside CNAPP, not a rival to it — and neither covers what happens before deployment. Here's how Wiz's cloud posture graph and Safeguard's supply chain layer fit together.