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.
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What is Software Supply Chain Security and How to Master It?
Master software supply chain security by learning best practices like proactive risk management, real-time monitoring, and more to prevent breaches.
How to Choose a Vulnerability Management Vendor in 2026
Wiz Experts Team
When you evaluate vulnerability management platforms, you need to look for specific capabilities that handle the speed of the cloud. The following criteria cover the essential features a modern vendor must provide.
What are API security standards?
API security standards are the formal specifications, protocols, and frameworks you apply across the API lifecycle to ensure strong API endpoint security.
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Managed Kubernetes: How it works, why it matters, and what to watch out for
Wiz Experts Team
Managed Kubernetes is a cloud-hosted form of Kubernetes in which hyperscalers (like Azure, AWS, and GCP) run the cluster’s control plane for you.
What is API compliance? A cloud security perspective
To achieve a strong API compliance posture in the cloud, you need code-to-cloud coverage. In other words, you need to build API compliance into your CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and runtime environments.
GRC analyst interview questions for 2026
Wiz Experts Team
A GRC analyst sits between technical security teams and business leadership. They turn complex cybersecurity issues into clear, risk-based recommendations that the business can act on.
What is Product Security in 2026?
Wiz Experts Team
Product security secures software as a system across code, cloud, identity, data, and runtime. Learn how modern teams prioritize exploitable risk in cloud environments.
AI-BOM: Building an AI Bill of Materials
An AI bill of materials (AI-BOM) is a complete inventory of all the assets in your organization’s AI ecosystem. It documents datasets, models, software, hardware, and dependencies across the entire lifecycle of AI systems—from initial development to deployment and monitoring.
What is API security testing?
API security testing is the process of validating that APIs are protected against abuse, misconfiguration, and sensitive data exposure. Unlike functional testing—which checks whether an API works—security testing looks for ways an API can be misused.
API risk assessment: Tools & techniques
An API risk assessment is a systematic process for evaluating the APIs used across an organization.
What is Incident Response? A Fast-Track Guide for SOCs
Wiz Experts Team
Incident response is a strategic approach to detecting and responding to cyberattacks with the goal of minimizing their impact to your IT systems and business as a whole.
What is an Incident Response Plan (IRP)?
An incident response plan (IRP) is a detailed framework that provides clear, step-by-step guidelines to detect, contain, eradicate, and recover from security incidents.
How to secure the SDLC with Wiz
Wiz Experts Team
Learn how to secure the SDLC from code to runtime with DevSecOps best practices: SAST, SCA, IaC scanning, CI/CD hardening, CSPM, CDR, and compliance mapping.
GraphQL API security risks every developer should know about
Wiz Experts Team
GraphQL API security is a set of specialized practices and controls for protecting GraphQL endpoints.