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.
Critical Security Controls: Definition and Overview
Wiz Experts Team
CIS Critical Security Controls are a set of 18 specific actions you can take to defend your organization against the most common cyber attacks.
What is Cyber Espionage? Cloud Attack Vectors, Detection & Prevention
Wiz Experts Team
Cyber espionage is the unauthorized access to computer systems and networks to steal classified information, trade secrets, or sensitive data for economic, political, or military advantage.
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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.
Top OSS vulnerability management tools
Wiz Experts Team
8 open-source vulnerability management tools and their features, categorized by use case
Red Team vs Blue Team: Roles and Differences Explained
Wiz Experts Team
Red team vs blue team refers to offensive security experts probing system defenses while defensive teams detect, respond to threats, and improve protection.
What is reachability analysis in cloud security?
Wiz Experts Team
Reachability analysis determines which vulnerabilities in your cloud environment attackers can actually exploit by mapping attack paths from entry points to critical assets
What is Managed Threat Hunting?
Wiz Experts Team
Managed threat hunting is a proactive security service where experts search for hidden threats automated tools miss, reducing dwell time and potential damage.
Container Scanning Tools
Looking to make the most of containerization while minimizing risk? Container scanning solutions are a critical line of defense that help ensure the safe and secure deployment of applications.
What is Container Escape: Detection & Prevention
Wiz Experts Team
Container escape is when an attacker breaks out of a container’s isolation to gain unauthorized access to the host system.
Shift Left vs Shift Right: Key Differences and Benefits
Wiz Experts Team
Shift left vs shift right compares two testing approaches: early code prevention and post deployment monitoring to reduce risk and catch bugs.
Free Incident Response Playbooks: Learn How to Apply Them
Learn more about incident response playbooks to find gaps in your process. Plus, get free playbooks for your cloud security teams, best practices, and more.
7 Best Incident Response Plan Templates for Security Teams
Access top incident response plan templates for your security team, find out which are cloud native, and learn how you can respond faster to minimize damage.
What is API Security?
API security encompasses the strategies, procedures, and solutions employed to defend APIs against threats, vulnerabilities, and unauthorized intrusion.
Top IaC Tools and Practices to Strengthen Code and Cloud Security
The best Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, curated by use case and categorized into CSP-specific and CSP-neutral providers.