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 native?

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Cloud native is a modern approach to building and running applications that fully exploits the advantages of cloud computing, including on-demand scalability, resilience, and automation.

What is continuous pen testing? A cloud security perspective

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Continuous penetration testing is an always-on, adversarial security testing approach that persistently discovers, exploits, and validates vulnerabilities across your environment rather than testing at a single point in time.

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What is a SOAP API? Security and implementation

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is an XML-based messaging protocol standardized by W3C that’s popular for its predictability, strict contracts, and strong security features. The protocol is the basis for SOAP APIs: The SOAP protocol defines the rules, and SOAP APIs are the actual implementations of those rules.

What is Managed Detection and Response (MDR)?

In this post, we’ll look at some of the differences between MDR and traditional managed services, how MDR functions within organizations, some of the tools it works with for even more effective threat detection and response, and the most important tip for getting the most out of your MDR solution.

The Top Azure Security Tools by Category

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Explore the top Azure security tools by category, from compliance and threat detection to network protection, so you can achieve strong cloud security.