Cloud Security Best Practices for 2025
8 essential cloud security best practices that every organization should start with
Swaroop Sham
Swaroop Sham is a Product Marketer at Wiz. His current focus areas include CNAPP, Secure Cloud Development / Shift-left, Container and Kubernetes Security, and more. In previous roles, Swaroop has dabbled in Authentication, Threat Detection, Email security, and Software Development. Swaroop has a Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science and has previously been cited in blogs, podcasts and magazines of repute.
Articles Swaroop Sham
IaC Security: How to Ensure Infrastructure as Code Is Secure
Explore how IaC security protects cloud environments by embedding protection into code templates to catch vulnerabilities early.
SBOM : Comment une nomenclature logicielle renforce la sécurité
Découvrez comment une nomenclature logicielle (SBOM) renforce la sécurité en suivant les composants, en identifiant les vulnérabilités et en garantissant la conformité.
Secure SDLC
Secure SDLC (SSDLC) is a framework for enhancing software security by integrating security designs, tools, and processes across the entire development lifecycle.
IaC Scanning: Concepts, Process, and Tools
Infrastructure as code (IaC) scanning is the process of analyzing the scripts that automatically provision and configure infrastructure.
Software Supply Chain Security Explained
Software supply chain security describes the set of processes that ensure the integrity, authenticity, and security of software components throughout their lifecycle.
Cloud Application Security: Basics and Best Practices
Cloud app security involves ensuring that both cloud-native and cloud-based apps are protected from vulnerabilities through the use of proper tools and practices.
Secret scanning: How it works and best practices
Secret scanning is the practice of running automated scans on code repositories, execution pipelines, configuration files, commits, and other data sources to prevent potential security threats posed by exposed secrets.
Sécurité du code (Code Security)
La sécurité du code, également connue sous le nom de codage sécurisé, fait référence aux pratiques, méthodologies et outils conçus pour garantir que le code écrit pour les applications et les systèmes est protégé contre les vulnérabilités et les menaces.
AWS S3 Security Best Practices
This article will refresh your knowledge of AWS and S3 security basics and then move into the best practices you need to get started with S3 security.
What is DevSecOps?
DevSecOps, which stands for Development, Security, and Operations, is a software development practice that emphasizes integrating security considerations throughout the entire development lifecycle, from initial design to deployment and ongoing maintenance.
The Top 11 Open-Source SBOM tools
This article will start with a quick refresher on SBOMs and then list the top SBOM-generation tools available.
Best Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Tools [By Use Case]
The best Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, curated by use case and categorized into CSP-specific and CSP-neutral providers.
Posts Swaroop Sham
Wiz Remediation and Response - Now available for Azure and GCP environments
Powerful new remediation and response capabilities enable the real-time enforcement of organizational security policies and streamline incident management.
Introducing The Champion Center: Operationalize and Measure Cloud Security Maturity Across Your Organization
Centralize security insights, scale adoption, and demonstrate measurable cloud security progress with Wiz
Accelerating our commitment to Europe with even more investments
Wiz increases investments in products and presence for European customers by enabling support for AWS European Sovereign Cloud (ESC) and new regional headquarters.
Wiz joins the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association
Wiz collaborates with Microsoft on the quest to make the cloud more secure for everyone.
It’s Magic! Wiz named Microsoft Commercial Marketplace Partner of the Year
Microsoft has honored Wiz as Commercial Marketplace 2024 Partner of the Year for excellence in go-to-market and joint-selling opportunities.
Wiz remediation and response: enforcing security best practices and responding to incidents made easy
Powerful new remediation and response capabilities enable the real-time enforcement of organizational security policies and streamline incident management.
Wiz launches new data center in UAE, supercharging global operations in the region
Organizations in the region can now benefit from Wiz's cloud security platform while maintaining their data sovereignty and privacy requirements.
Security Posture Management for GitHub: spotting and fixing risks in your GitHub organization just got a lot easier
Wiz SPM for version control systems helps you find and fix risks in your GitHub instance.
Securing the Cloud Together: Wiz and Splunk team up to secure your cloud resources
Use the Wiz App to consume and analyze data more easily in Splunk via a dedicated dashboard.
Monitor sensitive data [3**-** ***7] that resides in code
Monitor code for sensitive data to reduce the risk of accidental exposure or compliance violation.
Wiz ❤️ HashiCorp: Wiz’s new integration with Terraform Run Tasks helps customers slash risks and boost developer productivity
Mutual Wiz and HashiCorp customers can leverage this integration to scan their IaC configuration and enforce security best practices to reduce risk.
Introducing the Wiz extension: cloud security delivered to your AWS console
Wiz’s new Chrome browser extension brings cloud security to your fingertips and streamlines access to Wiz from your cloud console.
Extend Wiz to your Developers: Enable secure cloud development with agility
New capabilities extend Wiz CNAPP to secure the entire software pipeline, enabling organizations to securely develop for the cloud.
Wiz launches data center in Mumbai, supporting the growing operations of global organizations in India
Wiz is proud to announce the opening of its data center in Mumbai, India
Fortify your cloud security with Wiz as it integrates with Microsoft Sentinel
Lock down your cloud infrastructure with the new Wiz integration with Microsoft Sentinel. Gain full context, support thorough investigations, and automate your response for ultimate security.
Docker and Kubernetes, we have got you covered: Wiz simplifies compliance and security posture management for Docker and Kubernetes environments.
Ensure that your Docker and Kubernetes environments are secure and compliant with CIS benchmarks. Generate reports quickly and easily and remediate any issues with actionable insights.
Wiz: First agentless cloud security vendor to attain CIS SecureSuite Vendor Certification for cloud-managed Kubernetes
Confidently ensure your Kubernetes environments are compliant with CIS Benchmarks for cloud-managed Kubernetes. Quickly generate compliance reports and remediate any issues without hassle.
Shift left with Wiz Guardrails: New Wiz Admission Controller capabilities enable security policy checks at deployment time
Wiz CLI and Wiz Admission Controller enable developers to leverage a single security policy throughout the software pipeline for cloud-native environments.
Wiz and AWS CloudTrail Lake: Cloud security and compliance posture audits made easy
Simplify and centralize security and compliance management by sending audit-worthy events from Wiz into AWS CloudTrail Lake.
Introducing Azure Least Privilege: Enforce least privilege access for Azure environments
Wiz extends its CIEM capabilities to enable least privilege access for Azure environments.