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 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.
Cloud cost optimization is the continuous practice of making sure you’re only paying for the compute resources you actually need. It's about matching the supply of your instances to the real-time demand of your workloads, selecting the right pricing models, and ruthlessly eliminating waste.
Cloud cost optimization is the systematic practice of reducing cloud spend while improving cloud efficiency through enhanced visibility, resource rightsizing, workload automation, and team accountability.
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.
ChatGPT security is the process of protecting an organization from the compliance, brand image, customer experience, and general safety risks that ChatGPT introduces into applications.
This guide provides a straightforward comparison between CrowdStrike’s security offerings and other cybersecurity tools in the marketplace.
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.
This article explores the NIST IR model and capabilities to look out for when choosing IR tools to support NIST SP 800-61 Rev. 2 implementation.
Master vulnerability scanning with this detailed guide. You’ll learn about scanning types, how scanning works, how to pick the right scanning tool, and more.
Malware scanning is the process of inspecting files, systems, and cloud resources for signs of malicious software—before it causes damage.
Data poisoning threatens the cloud, especially when 70% of cloud environments use AI services. Learn about the top threats and how to protect your organization.
Writing your IR plan from scratch? Not sure where to begin? Get a head start with these free templates and examples.
Attack surface analysis is a cybersecurity practice that identifies and evaluates all potential access points, external and internal, that an attacker could exploit.
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.
Smart CIEM beats basic visibility. The best platforms prioritize real attack paths and provide actionable fixes, not just permission inventories.
Looking for a Wiz alternative? Learn why Wiz stands apart and when it may take multiple tools to match its coverage.
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.
A base image is the foundational layer of every container—it acts like the container’s operating system (OS), providing core files, dependencies, and configurations needed to run your application.
DSPM solutions are essential for effective cloud data security and compliance because they continuously oversee and assess an organization’s cloud data security practices and configurations.
Code-to-cloud security protects applications across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC), from code all the way to runtime in the cloud.
A VPC is a logically isolated private network within a public cloud that users can fully configure.
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.
This cloud compliance guide covers regulations and best practices you should follow, along with tips for how to choose the right compliance tool for your needs.
Data security in 2025 demands a shift from perimeter defenses to continuous, context-aware protection across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem environments.
