Identity and Access Management, or IAM, controls who can do what within your cloud environment — which users, services, and applications can read a database, launch a server, or delete a storage bucket. Misconfigured IAM permissions are one of the root causes behind many cloud security incidents covered in our cloud security basics guide, and … Read more
Public storage bucket exposures remain one of the most common — and most avoidable — cloud security incidents, and they continue to happen despite being widely known and well documented. This guide provides a specific, step-by-step checklist for auditing and securing S3 buckets and their GCP equivalent, Cloud Storage buckets, going beyond the general overview … Read more
Backups are the safety net that matters most exactly when everything else has already gone wrong — a ransomware attack, an accidental deletion, a failed migration. Yet backup strategy is one of the most commonly neglected areas of cloud security for small teams, often set up once during initial infrastructure setup and never revisited or … Read more
Containers have become the default way many small development teams package and deploy applications, and Docker specifically remains the most widely used tool for building and running them. Container security is often treated as an afterthought compared to the broader cloud infrastructure concerns covered in our cloud security basics guide, but a misconfigured container adds … Read more
A surprising number of security incidents happen not to production business infrastructure, but to personal side projects and free-tier AWS accounts set up quickly to test an idea, then left running with minimal security attention. This guide covers the specific, low-effort steps worth taking even for a small personal or side project account, building on … Read more
Most cloud security incidents are not the result of a sophisticated attack. They are the result of a misconfigured setting that quietly sat exposed for months before anyone noticed — a storage bucket left public, an access key committed to a public repository, or a security group left open to the entire internet during a … Read more