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.
Application vulnerability management is a continuous process of discovering, assessing, prioritizing, and remediating security weaknesses in your software code, APIs, and dependencies across the entire development lifecycle.
A CISSP-aligned incident response model outlines seven common steps organizations use to detect, respond to, and recover from security incidents.
An advanced persistent threat is a sophisticated cyberattack where skilled hackers break into your network and stay hidden for months or even years
Indicators of attack (IOAs) are real-time behavioral signals that reveal active malicious activity in your cloud environment. Unlike static signatures, IOAs detect attacker techniques as they happen.
Wiz connects the dots across your cloud, from code to runtime.
SOC threat hunting is a proactive cybersecurity practice where analysts actively search for signs of malicious activity that bypass traditional security controls.
Indicators of compromise are forensic artifacts that prove a security breach has already happened. Think of IOCs as digital fingerprints left behind at a crime scene—they're specific pieces of evidence that confirm an attacker was in your system.
Enrichment in threat intelligence is the process of adding context, metadata, and relationships to raw security data to make it actionable.
An application security engineer is a security professional who protects software applications from threats throughout the entire development process.
Vulnerability threat intelligence is the practice of combining vulnerability assessment data with real-world threat information to understand which security weaknesses actually matter.
Digital risk protection (DRP) is a cybersecurity discipline that monitors and mitigates threats to your digital assets across public, deep, and dark web channels.
Copyleft is a licensing method that uses copyright law to ensure software freedom and requires derivative works to maintain the same open license.
While the deep web is mostly used for legitimate, private activities, the dark web hosts both illegal marketplaces and serves as a haven for privacy-seekers and activists in repressive regimes.
API security risks are the complete spectrum of threats targeting application programming interfaces (APIs), including technical vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and business logic flaws.
Kubernetes security incidents differ fundamentally from traditional IT breaches. Containers and pods are ephemeral—some containers live for only seconds or minutes. They're created, destroyed, and moved within seconds, making it far harder to track attacks compared to static servers.
Agentic AI security protects AI systems that autonomously make decisions, use tools, and take action in live environments. Agentic AI doesn't just answer questions—it acts on them.
Learn how SAST improves your environment, how it differs from DAST, and how you can integrate it into your entire DevSecOps approach to cloud security.
Cloud ransomware is malware that targets data in cloud environments by exploiting features and APIs to encrypt, exfiltrate or destroy data.
DevOps is a way of working that breaks down walls between development and operations teams. This means developers and IT operations work together instead of in separate silos, which helps companies build and release software faster.
Threat hunting frameworks provide structured, repeatable methodologies for proactively searching for hidden threats that have bypassed traditional security defenses in cloud environments.
