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.
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.
Cloud security standards include clear steps that organizations can take to secure their cloud environments and mitigate the risk of cyberattacks.
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is an evaluation designed for Defense Industrial Base (DIB) contractors.
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.
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).
