Welcome to CloudSec Academy, your guide to navigating the alphabet soup of cloud security acronyms and industry jargon. Cut through the noise with clear, concise, and expertly crafted content covering fundamentals to best practices.
Cloud cost optimization is the systematic practice of reducing cloud spend while improving cloud efficiency through enhanced visibility, resource rightsizing, workload automation, and team accountability.
Modern vulnerability management is evolving into Unified Vulnerability Management (UVM)—a single approach that connects all scanners, adds cloud context, and turns scattered findings into prioritized, fixable risks.
This guide provides a straightforward comparison between CrowdStrike’s security offerings and other cybersecurity tools in the marketplace.
Cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM) is a security practice that gives teams unified visibility and control over all enterprise assets—cloud, SaaS, on-prem, and beyond. It helps eliminate blind spots and reduce risk by correlating asset data from across your environment and tools. CAASM enables teams to query, prioritize, and act from a single source of truth.
This article explores the NIST IR model and capabilities to look out for when choosing IR tools to support NIST SP 800-61 Rev. 2 implementation.
Vulnerability scanning is the process of detecting and evaluating security flaws in IT systems, networks, and software.
Malware scanning is the process of inspecting files, systems, and cloud resources for signs of malicious software—before it causes damage.
Data poisoning is a kind of cyberattack that targets the training data used to build artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models.
Writing your IR plan from scratch? Not sure where to begin? Get a head start with these free templates and examples.
Attack surface analysis is a cybersecurity practice that identifies and evaluates all potential access points, external and internal, that an attacker could exploit.
Let's compare on-premises and cloud security, examine their differences, and explore key cloud-specific security concepts to help you choose the best approaches to security for your entire organization.
Smart CIEM beats basic visibility. The best platforms prioritize real attack paths and provide actionable fixes, not just permission inventories.
Looking for a Wiz alternative? Learn why Wiz stands apart and when it may take multiple tools to match its coverage.
Choosing between role-based access control (RBAC) and attribute-based access control (ABAC) sets up how your cloud stack determines who may do what, where, and when. This blog post shows you the functional differences between the two models.
A base image is the foundational layer of every container—it acts like the container’s operating system (OS), providing core files, dependencies, and configurations needed to run your application.
DSPM solutions are essential for effective cloud data security and compliance because they continuously oversee and assess an organization’s cloud data security practices and configurations.
Code-to-cloud security protects applications across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC), from code all the way to runtime in the cloud.
A VPC is a logically isolated private network within a public cloud that users can fully configure.
Learn about vulnerability management and how you can improve your cloud security with best practices and tools—plus how you can get a 1-on-1 assessment.
This cloud compliance guide covers regulations and best practices you should follow, along with tips for how to choose the right compliance tool for your needs.
Data security in 2025 demands a shift from perimeter defenses to continuous, context-aware protection across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem environments.
In this guide, we’ll show you how to choose a CNAPP that cuts through complexity and gives your team a real path to security: with full-stack visibility, runtime protection, and developer-friendly workflows.
Cloud service providers offer on-demand, scalable computing resources like storage services, applications, and cloud-based compute. Using a structured checklist can help your business select a cloud provider that has the features you need to meet your security goals.
Learn the pillars of SAST scanning. Find out how to improve scanning and what platforms you can use to improve code and cloud security with best practices.
