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.

Managed Cloud Security

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Managed cloud security helps organizations scale protection across cloud environments by outsourcing key operations like detection, response, and compliance monitoring.

The Modern Cloud Security Maturity Model

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A maturity model isn’t just a framework—it’s your roadmap to evolving beyond compliance checklists. Start with foundational controls (like asset inventory and basic IAM hygiene) and progress to advanced practices like threat modeling and runtime protection.

The Top 5 CNAPP benefits you need to know in 2025

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A CNAPP, or Cloud Native Application Protection Platform, is an integrated security solution that unifies multiple cloud security capabilities—like CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, and IaC scanning—into a single platform.

Risk-Based Vulnerability Management

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Risk-based vulnerability management is a vulnerability management approach that prioritizes vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk to an organization.

Exposure Management vs. Vulnerability Management: What’s the difference?

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Both approaches are unique, but they function as complementary cybersecurity frameworks for managing threats and vulnerabilities in modern IT systems. Together, EM and VM are essential for minimizing your attack surface, ensuring regulatory compliance, and preventing breaches.

Kubernetes RBAC Explained

Kubernetes role-based access control (RBAC) serves as a foundational security layer within Kubernetes. It is essential for regulating access to the K8s API and its resources, allowing organizations to define user roles with specific permissions to effectively control who can see or interact with what resources within a cluster.

What is alert fatigue in cybersecurity?

Alert fatigue, sometimes known as alarm fatigue, happens when security team members are desensitized by too many notifications, leading them to miss critical signals and legitimate warnings.

Private vs. Public Cloud: What’s the Difference?

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In this blog post, we’ll explore the differences between public and private cloud models and provide use cases and best practices to help you choose the best cloud strategy for your business.

Malware Detection: Tools and Techniques

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To defend against malware in the cloud, businesses need a detection and response solution that’s built for the cloud, fluent in cloud-based indicators of compromise (IOCs), and enriched by cloud threat intelligence.

What is SaaS Security?

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Software as a service (SaaS) refers to cloud-based software applications that can be accessed over the internet without any installation or maintenance on local devices.

What is SOCaaS?

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SOCaaS outsources threat detection, investigation, and response for cost savings, scalable operations, and on-demand expertise.