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.
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A honeypot is an intentionally vulnerable system that appears legitimate to attract malicious actors. By tricking attackers into interacting with a fake target, security teams can capture valuable intelligence about attacker tools, methods, and motivations in a controlled environment.
A data security policy is a document outlining an organization's guidelines, rules, and standards for managing and protecting sensitive data assets.
Container base image patching is the process of updating the OS and runtime libraries in the base layer of a container image to remediate vulnerabilities and keep images secure.
Cloud storage cost refers to the total expense associated with storing, accessing, and managing data across cloud platforms like AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, and Google Cloud Storage.
Wiz connects the dots across your cloud, from code to runtime.
To control Google Cloud spend, you first need to understand how the platform charges for resources. GCP’s billing is usage-based, but the pricing model you choose can drastically change your costs.
SIEM stands for Security Information and Event Management. It is a unified platform that combines Security Information Management (SIM) and Security Event Management (SEM).
The main difference is that SIEM focuses on detection and visibility, while SOAR focuses on response and automation. SIEM collects and analyzes vast amounts of log data, whereas SOAR acts on processed alerts and findings.
A Kubernetes engineer is a specialized tech role responsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of container orchestration platforms.
Data security compliance is a critical aspect of data governance that involves adhering to the security-centric rules and regulations set forth by supervisory and regulatory bodies, including federal agencies.
The top 14 open-source application security tools—including SCA, secrets scanning, and application security testing tools—to help you streamline the critical process of securing your apps from threats and vulnerabilities.
CI/CD security tools automate security checks in development pipelines to identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations during code changes, ensuring continuous security.
Discover how CSRF attacks work, identify common vulnerabilities, and learn the best methods for preventing CSRF attacks to keep your applications secure.
Learn how to defend AI systems against prompt injection attacks that exploit LLMs to leak sensitive data, bypass controls, and corrupt model output integrity.
