What is an Attack Surface?
Wiz Experts Team
An attack surface is refers to all the potential entry points an attacker could exploit to gain unauthorized access to a system, network, or data.
CloudSec Academy
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.
What Is Cloud Governance? Best Practices for A Strong Framework
Wiz Experts Team
Cloud governance entails the policies, processes, and controls an organization puts in place to ensure the effective and secure management of its cloud resources and services.
What Is Cryptojacking? How It Works & Tips to Prevent It
Cryptojacking is when an attacker hijacks your processing power to mine cryptocurrency for their own benefit.
Vulnerability Remediation: A Fast-Track Guide
Vulnerability remediation is the process of fixing, mitigating, or eliminating security vulnerabilities that have been identified within your environment, before attackers can exploit them.
The role of Kubernetes in AI/ML development
In this blog post, you’ll discover how Kubernetes plays a crucial role in AI/ML development. We’ll explore containerization’s benefits, practical use cases, and day-to-day challenges, as well as how Kubernetes security can protect your data and models while mitigating potential risks.
Essential Application Security Controls
Application security controls are technology-independent policies, procedures, and standards that help strengthen an organization’s overall security posture.
Static Code Analysis
Static code analysis identifies security vulnerabilities and coding issues without executing the code, improving software quality and security.
Linux Container Security: Benefits, Risks, & Best Practices
Understanding the nuances of Linux containers is crucial for building robust, secure applications. This blog post provides insights into the practical implementation of containers, focusing on both their strengths and potential pitfalls.
13 Essential AWS IAM Best Practices
13 essential best practices for every organization + the common tools and services that can support them
RCE meaning: Remote code execution attacks explained
Wiz Experts Team
Remote code execution refers to a security vulnerability through which malicious actors can remotely run code on your systems or servers.
AWS containers: Fundamentals and best practices
At their core, containers encapsulate the application code and runtime, system tools, dependencies, and settings that enable it to operate in the same way across multiple environments.
Mastering AWS Security Groups: Essential Best Practices
AWS security groups (SGs) are virtual firewalls for your EC2 instances that control both inbound and outbound traffic.
AWS Security vs. Azure Security: Showdown for the Best Pick
Wiz Experts Team
To help you make an informed decision, we've crafted a comprehensive comparison of AWS and Azure security, empowering you to select the cloud provider that seamlessly integrates with your unique needs.
Top 9 AWS Security Tools in 2025: Features and Limitations
Wiz Experts Team
11 native tools for IAM, data protection, network and application protection, compliance management, and threat detection
8 Essential Code Review Best Practices
Code review is a software development practice where code is systematically examined to ensure it meets specific goals, including quality and security standards.
What is Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)?
Identity threat detection and response (ITDR) is a cybersecurity approach that uses a combination of tools, intelligence, and automation to proactively detect, investigate, and respond to threats targeting digital identities and authentication systems in the cloud.
Generative AI Security: Risks & Best Practices
Wiz Experts Team
Generative AI (GenAI) security is an area of enterprise cybersecurity that zeroes in on the risks and threats posed by GenAI applications. To reduce your GenAI attack surface, you need a mix of technical controls, policies, teams, and AI security tools.
AI/ML in Kubernetes Best Practices: The Essentials
Our goal with this article is to share the best practices for running complex AI tasks on Kubernetes. We'll talk about scaling, scheduling, security, resource management, and other elements that matter to seasoned platform engineers and folks just stepping into machine learning in Kubernetes.
What is Cloud Configuration Management?
Wiz Experts Team
Cloud configuration management is the process of defining, enforcing, and maintaining consistent cloud resource configurations across environments. This includes automating deployment, monitoring compliance, preventing misconfigurations, and ensuring security, cost efficiency, and operational reliability.
A Comprehensive Guide to Navigating FISMA Compliance
Wiz Experts Team
FISMA compliance is the set of processes, controls, and protocols an organization must have in place to ensure its information assets satisfy the requirements of the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).
Introduction to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)
Wiz Experts Team
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) is a risk-based framework designed to help organizations manage and reduce cybersecurity risks. It provides a structured approach to identifying, protecting, detecting, responding to, and recovering from cyber threats.
5 Essential Application Security Controls
Application security controls are technology-independent collections of policies, procedures, and standards to secure software, devices, users, network, and data.
What is Application Security testing?
Application security testing (AST) is a set of processes designed to detect and address security gaps during the early phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). In other words, teams take steps in pre-production to identify and mitigate risks before applications are released into operational environments.
SOC Metrics: Measuring SecOps KPIs
SecOps metrics are trackable bits of data that quantify various aspects of your security operations center (SOC), such as performance or efficiency.