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 penetration tester (pen tester) is a security professional who evaluates an organization's defenses by simulating authorized cyberattacks, identifying and chaining weaknesses together to demonstrate real-world impact.
Web application security is the practice of protecting against common web app vulnerabilities that can lead to unauthorized access, misuse, data exposure, and service interruption.
The OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications is a specialized security framework that catalogs the ten most critical vulnerabilities impacting large language models within enterprise environments.
A tabletop exercise is a facilitated discussion built around a simulated incident. Participants talk through what they would do, who would make which decisions, what evidence they would need, and where response steps would stall.
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An SBOM lists every component in your software. Learn what SBOMs include, common formats, and how to build a mature SBOM program from SCA tooling to CI/CD.
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 agent security is the practice of keeping autonomous AI systems safe, predictable, and controlled when they take actions on real systems.
In this article, we'll explore the different types of data categorization, strategies for effective management, and how to avoid common pitfalls that can complicate cloud data governance.
Cloud forensics is a branch of digital forensics that applies investigative techniques to collecting and evaluating critical evidence in cloud computing environments following a security incident.
Vulnerability management is the continuous process of finding, prioritizing, and fixing security weaknesses, ensuring they are identified, validated, and recorded, before attackers can exploit them.
Private cloud security is a term that describes the tools and techniques used to secure private cloud environments.
Learn about CI/CD pipeline security best practices to protect your software lifecycle from vulnerabilities and attacks while maintaining development velocity.
Non-human identities (NHIs) are software principals that authenticate and execute actions autonomously in cloud environments without human intervention.
MCP acts as a universal security control plane that standardizes policy enforcement across enterprise AI workflows.
Cloud workload security protects workloads as they move across cloud environments through monitoring, access controls, encryption, and segmentation.
DAST, or dynamic application security testing, is a testing approach that involves testing an application for different runtime vulnerabilities that come up only when the application is fully functional.
Vulnerability scanning is an integral component of every vulnerability management program, providing security teams with insights needed to address vulnerabilities before they become attack vectors. When conducted regularly, vulnerability assessments offer asset discovery and visibility, attack surface management, and compliance enforcement.
AI agent sprawl is the uncontrolled multiplication of autonomous AI workloads, and the active permissions they carry, across your cloud environment.
