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.

Top 10 cloud compliance tools in 2025

When selecting a cloud compliance tool, look for features like comprehensive framework coverage, multi- and hybrid cloud visibility, context-aware risk prioritization, developer workflow integration, and automated evidence collection and reporting.

Container Registries Explained

A container registry is a service that stores, manages, and distributes application images. Its architecture is designed to ensure availability by providing a centralized resource for container image discovery, distribution, and deployment.

Vulnerability Prioritization in the Cloud: Strategies + Steps

Vulnerability prioritization is the practice of assessing and ranking identified security vulnerabilities based on critical factors such as severity, potential impact, exploitability, and business context. This ranking helps security experts and executives avoid alert fatigue to focus remediation efforts on the most critical vulnerabilities.

Top Docker Alternatives

Wiz Experts Team

In this guide, we'll look at a variety of Docker alternatives that provide different benefits for your workloads—such as daemonless operation, a simplified management experience, improved container security, and enhanced scalability and orchestration for production environments.

CloudWatch Costs & Pricing in 2025

Without proper management, organizations can see their CloudWatch bills escalate rapidly, sometimes unexpectedly accounting for a significant portion of their overall AWS spend. Read to learn more.

What are CIS benchmarks?

Wiz Experts Team

CIS benchmarks are publicly available security roadmaps offering core recommendations to guide organizations on hardening their IT systems against cyber threats.

CSPM in Azure

Wiz Experts Team

All major cloud providers have adopted a CSPM solution to help organizations handle their part of the shared responsibility model. In Azure, CSPM is a critical component in making sure your infrastructure is secure, compliant, and resilient to cybersecurity threats.

What is an API Catalog?

An API catalog is the best way to protect your organization from API risks: It surfaces hidden routes, weak auth, and sensitive data, anchoring effective security.

The top 7 Cloud Security Solutions

Wiz Experts Team

The difference between market leaders and niche solutions? Comprehensive coverage without operational compromises. This post provides a practical blueprint for judging those claims and selecting technology that truly fits your organization.