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.

Attack surface discovery: From blind spots to visibility

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Attack surface discovery (ASD) is the continuous, automated process of identifying and mapping every asset, connection, and service an attacker could target across your entire digital footprint (cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments).

Runtime container scanning best practices

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Runtime scanning answers a critical question: 'What is runtime security for containers?' It focuses on detecting live behaviors, active threats, and anomalies that only appear when containers execute under real production traffic.

Source code scanning best practices for cloud security

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Source code scanning is automated analysis of your code, dependencies, and infrastructure definitions to find security issues before you deploy. This means a tool reads your code the way a careful reviewer would, but at high speed and at scale.

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How to implement CI/CD security scanning: Best practices

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CI/CD security scanning is the practice of adding automated security checks into your build and deployment pipelines. This means every meaningful code change is tested for risk before it can reach production.

What is external vulnerability scanning?

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External vulnerability scanning is a way to find weaknesses in your public-facing systems by testing them from outside your network. This means you see your environment the same way an attacker on the internet would see it.

Attack surfaces vs. attack vectors: What security teams need to know

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This blog post will explain strategies for attack surface management (ASM) that integrate both attack surface reduction and attack vector defense into one continuous process, helping you meet the requirements of leading security frameworks like Gartner’s Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) framework.

What is a Prompt Injection Attack?

Prompt injection attacks are an AI security threat where an attacker manipulates the input prompt in natural language processing (NLP) systems to influence the system’s output.

What is continuous vulnerability scanning?

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Continuous vulnerability scanning is an automated process that checks systems, networks, and applications for security weaknesses to detect new issues promptly.

Best code analysis tools in 2025

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This post will explore the top 10 code security platforms to see just how well they secure modern cloud-native applications.

What is a vulnerability scanning report?

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A vulnerability scanning report is a document from a vulnerability scanner that lists discovered weaknesses, shows how severe they are, and explains how to fix them.