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.

CSPM vs. CWPP: Should You Use One or Both?

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Explore CWPP vs. CSPM to learn more about their roles and differences and why a unified CNAPP may offer the best cloud security strategy for your organization.

What is CWPP? [Cloud Workload Protection Platform]

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A cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) is a security solution that provides continuous threat monitoring and protection for cloud workloads across different types of cloud environments.

Cloud Service Providers: Choosing the Right Platform

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Cloud service providers (CSPs) are companies that offer on-demand computing resources—including servers, storage, databases, and networking—hosted in the cloud and accessible through the web.

CNAPP vs. ASPM: What’s the Difference?

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This article breaks down the relationship between CNAPPs and ASPM, clarifies how they overlap, and explains why organizations benefit most from a platform that brings both together.

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.

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.

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.