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.
Although the HIPAA doesn't make any specific reference to the cloud, it is a completely different IT environment from the on-premises data center—with different compliance challenges. Learn some of the key HIPAA considerations when you host your healthcare workloads in the cloud.
In this post, we'll explore NIST's cloud security standards and how they provide a framework of best practices that enhance the safety and reliability of cloud environments.
In this post, we’ll explore why NIST 800-53 is an essential part of modern data protection and important to your cloud environment—along with some best practices so you can roll it out smoothly in your organization.
This checklist is a comprehensive guide to becoming NIST-compliant and reinforcing the most critical security pillars.
NIST compliance is adherence to security standards and guidelines developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
A data security policy is a document outlining an organization's guidelines, rules, and standards for managing and protecting sensitive data assets.
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.
Cloud governance best practices are guidelines and strategies designed to effectively manage and optimize cloud resources, ensure security, and align cloud operations with business objectives. In this post, we'll the discuss the essential best practices that every organization should consider.
A data risk assessment is a full evaluation of the risks that an organization’s data poses. The process involves identifying, classifying, and triaging threats, vulnerabilities, and risks associated with all your data.
In this guide, we’ll break down why AI governance has become so crucial for organizations, highlight the key principles and regulations shaping this space, and provide actionable steps for building your own governance framework.
In this post, we’ll bring you up to speed on why the EU put this law in place, what it involves, and what you need to know as an AI developer or vendor, including best practices to simplify compliance.
Discover key cloud security standards to protect sensitive data and ensure compliance with frameworks like ISO, SOC 2, and NIST.
The principle of least privilege (PoLP) is a cybersecurity concept in which users, processes, and devices are granted the minimum access and permissions necessary to perform their tasks.
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.
CIS benchmarks are publicly available security roadmaps offering core recommendations to guide organizations on hardening their IT systems against cyber threats.
The shared responsibility model is a framework establishing cloud security responsibilities between cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and customers.
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) describes the process of continuously detecting and remediating risks in cloud environments and services (e.g. S3 buckets w/ public read access). CSPM tools automatically evaluate cloud configurations against industry best practices, regulatory requirements, and security policies to ensure that cloud environments are secure and properly managed.
Cloud compliance is the series of procedures, controls, and organizational measures you need to have in place to ensure your cloud-based assets meet the requirements of the data protection regulations, standards, and frameworks that are relevant to your organization.
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.
Understanding how to implement zero-trust architecture is crucial for protecting against the complexities of modern cyber threats.
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is an evaluation designed for Defense Industrial Base (DIB) contractors.
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).
