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.
An incident response playbook is a document outlining clear steps for security teams to follow when responding to and resolving security incidents such as malware infections, unauthorized access, denial-of-service attacks, data breaches, or insider threats.
AI is the engine behind modern development processes, workload automation, and big data analytics. AI security is a key component of enterprise cybersecurity that focuses on defending AI infrastructure from cyberattacks.
Digital forensics is the cybersecurity process of gathering digital evidence and responding to a cyberattack.
A security operations center (SOC) framework defines how an organization detects, investigates, and responds to threats. A SOC framework isn’t just a policy doc. It’s the people, processes, and technologies that keep threats in check—now redesigned for cloud speed and scale.
Cloud entitlements are access and administrative privileges that define what resources users can access and how they can interact with those resources.
An incident response plan (IRP) is a detailed framework that provides clear, step-by-step guidelines to detect, contain, eradicate, and recover from security incidents.
Open-source software (OSS) incident response (IR) tools are publicly available tools enterprises use to effectively manage and respond to numerous security threats.
Code security, also known as secure coding, refers to the practices, methodologies, and tools designed to ensure that the code written for applications and systems is secure from vulnerabilities and threats.
This article will give you a refresher on code security and review the most popular open-source code security tools available.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) delivers Kubernetes as a managed service in Azure and is popular among organizations looking for a hassle-free Kubernetes solution in the cloud.
Prompt injection attacks are an AI security threat where an attacker manipulates the input prompt in natural language processing (NLP) systems to influence the system’s output.
Data leakage is the unchecked exfiltration of organizational data to a third party. It occurs through various means such as misconfigured databases, poorly protected network servers, phishing attacks, or even careless data handling.
Cloud cost optimization is the continuous practice of making sure you’re only paying for the compute resources you actually need. It's about matching the supply of your instances to the real-time demand of your workloads, selecting the right pricing models, and ruthlessly eliminating waste.
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.
ChatGPT security is the process of protecting an organization from the compliance, brand image, customer experience, and general safety risks that ChatGPT introduces into applications.
An incident response framework is a blueprint that helps organizations deal with security incidents in a structured and efficient way. It outlines the steps to take before, during, and after an incident, and assigns roles and responsibilities to different team members.
In this article, we’ll explore the step-by-step process of code scanning, its benefits, approaches, and best practices.
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.
Master vulnerability scanning with this detailed guide. You’ll learn about scanning types, how scanning works, how to pick the right scanning tool, and more.
Malware scanning is the process of inspecting files, systems, and cloud resources for signs of malicious software—before it causes damage.
Data poisoning threatens the cloud, especially when 70% of cloud environments use AI services. Learn about the top threats and how to protect your organization.
