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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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.
SecDevOps is essentially DevOps with an emphasis on moving security further left. DevOps involves both the development team and the operations team in one process to improve deployment performance and service customers faster.
Managed cloud security helps organizations scale protection across cloud environments by outsourcing key operations like detection, response, and compliance monitoring.
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SaaS security posture management (SSPM) is a toolset designed to secure SaaS apps by identifying misconfigurations, managing permissions, and ensuring regulatory compliance across your organization’s digital estate.
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Data risk management involves detecting, assessing, and remediating critical risks associated with data. We're talking about risks like exposure, misconfigurations, leakage, and a general lack of visibility.
Open-source security is the collection of tools and processes used to secure and manage the lifecycle of open-source software (OSS) and dependencies from development to production.
Application security frameworks are essential guidelines, best practices, and tools designed to help organizations stay consistent in their security practices, meet compliance requirements, and effectively manage risks associated with application security.
Cloud vulnerability management is the continuous process of identifying, classifying, prioritizing, and remediating security vulnerabilities in your cloud environment.
CI/CD security scanning is the practice of adding automated security checks into your build and deployment pipelines. This means every meaningful code change is tested for risk before it can reach production.
It’s a good idea to consider a range of Kubernetes security tools. Open source solutions can greatly improve the security of your Kubernetes clusters, so this section explores the top 11 open-source Kubernetes security tools that can help to safeguard your Kubernetes environment.
Secure coding is the practice of developing software that is resistant to security vulnerabilities by applying security best practices, techniques, and tools early in development.
Shadow AI is the unauthorized use or implementation of AI that is not controlled by, or visible to, an organization’s IT department.
Most incident response teams measure both MTTD and MTTR to not only shorten attackers’ dwell times in their systems but also to gauge the team’s readiness to combat future security incidents and then optimize response times.
External Attack Surface Management (EASM) refers to the process of identifying, analyzing, and managing an organization's external attack surface.
Black-box security testing shows what your cloud environment actually exposes to the internet, helping teams focus on reachable and exploitable risk rather than theoretical weaknesses.
Cloud penetration testing is primarily about identities, permissions, trust relationships, and exposed services; it’s not just IP ranges and open ports.
External penetration testing assesses the exploitability of public-facing assets. It doesn’t just determine whether vulnerabilities exist; it also indicates whether attackers can actually reach and leverage them.
