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.

Data Leakage: Risks, Causes, & Prevention

Data leakage is the unchecked exfiltration of organizational data to a third party. It occurs through various means such as misconfigured databases, poorly protected network servers, phishing attacks, or even careless data handling.

Top Vulnerability Management Solutions in 2025

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Modern vulnerability management is evolving into Unified Vulnerability Management (UVM)—a single approach that connects all scanners, adds cloud context, and turns scattered findings into prioritized, fixable risks.

What is Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM)?

Cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM) is a security practice that gives teams unified visibility and control over all enterprise assets—cloud, SaaS, on-prem, and beyond. It helps eliminate blind spots and reduce risk by correlating asset data from across your environment and tools. CAASM enables teams to query, prioritize, and act from a single source of truth.

What is Attack Surface Analysis?

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Attack surface analysis is a cybersecurity practice that identifies and evaluates all potential access points, external and internal, that an attacker could exploit.

On-Premise vs. Cloud Security

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Let's compare on-premises and cloud security, examine their differences, and explore key cloud-specific security concepts to help you choose the best approaches to security for your entire organization.

Top CIEM Solutions: Which Should You Try?

Wiz Experts Team

Smart CIEM beats basic visibility. The best platforms prioritize real attack paths and provide actionable fixes, not just permission inventories.

ABAC vs. RBAC: What’s the difference?

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Choosing between role-based access control (RBAC) and attribute-based access control (ABAC) sets up how your cloud stack determines who may do what, where, and when. This blog post shows you the functional differences between the two models.

What is Code-to-Cloud Security?

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Code-to-cloud security protects applications across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC), from code all the way to runtime in the cloud.

What is a VPC?

Wiz Experts Team

A VPC is a logically isolated private network within a public cloud that users can fully configure.

Vulnerability Management: The Complete Guide

Wiz Experts Team

Learn about vulnerability management and how you can improve your cloud security with best practices and tools—plus how you can get a 1-on-1 assessment.

What is Data Security in 2025?

Wiz Experts Team

Data security in 2025 demands a shift from perimeter defenses to continuous, context-aware protection across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem environments.