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.
See how Wiz turns cloud security fundamentals into real-world results.
Extended detection and response (XDR) correlates endpoint, network, identity, and cloud signals. See how XDR works, native vs. open XDR, and its cloud gaps.
Application detection and response tools catch attacks inside running apps. Compare the top ADR tools for 2026, how they work, and how to pick the right one.
Just-in-time (JIT) access is an access control model that grants a user, service, or workload elevated cloud permissions only for a specific task, then revokes them automatically when the time-to-live (TTL) expires.
Cloud financial management (CFM) is the practice of planning, tracking, and optimizing cloud spend. Learn its four pillars, tools, and common challenges.
Watch how Wiz turns instant visibility into rapid remediation.
AI code security is the discipline of securing software in a world where AI now contributes directly to the codebase.
Static application security testing (SAST) is a white-box testing method that scans source code, bytecode, or binaries for security flaws without running the program.
AI SAST is static application security testing enhanced with artificial intelligence to make code scanning more accurate, contextual, and actionable.
A software bill of materials (SBOM) is a machine-readable inventory of the components, libraries, modules, and dependencies inside a piece of software.
Penetration testing, or pen testing, is an authorized security assessment that uses simulated attacks to find and validate exploitable weaknesses in your systems. The goal is to understand how a compromise could happen, what access it would provide, and which defenses need improvement.
Effective penetration testing begins with defined business objectives, an agreed scope, and the appropriate testing model.
Exploitability measures how feasible it is to use a vulnerability. Contextual exploitability checks whether the necessary conditions exist in your deployment.
Endpoint detection and response tools compared: see the top EDR platforms, how to evaluate them, and where cloud detection and response fills the gaps.
Application detection and response (ADR) is an application security approach that detects and stops attacks from inside running applications.
Runtime security tools compared: how Wiz, Sysdig, Falco, CrowdStrike, Datadog and more protect live cloud workloads, and which are worth a proof of concept.
Cloud FinOps is an operational framework and methodology that brings together stakeholders across finance, engineering, product, and the business to maximize the value of cloud & AI investments.
Looking for an Upwind alternative? Compare the leading platforms enterprise CISOs evaluate, including Wiz, Sysdig, Palo Alto Networks, and CrowdStrike
Learn how AWS penetration testing validates exploitable weaknesses in workloads, IAM, and configurations, then turns findings into fixes engineers can ship.
AI infrastructure is the hardware, software, and networking used to build, train, and run AI models. Learn its core components, benefits, and security.
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