If you’ve ever spun up an S3 bucket “just for testing,” opened a firewall rule to 0.0.0.0/0 to unblock a demo, or shared an Azure SAS token with a long expiration because it was “easier,” this article is for you. Cloud platforms are ridiculously powerful. They’re also unforgiving. One checkbox, one permissive policy, or one…
If you thought patching always meant “good guy at work,” think again. In a twist that sounds like a plotline from a cyber-thriller, researchers have observed threat actors exploiting a critical vulnerability—and then patching it themselves. Why? To lock out rival attackers, evade common detection, and keep quiet, long-term access to your environment. This isn’t…
What if your security operations center came with tireless analysts who never sleep, never miss a log, and can triage a flood of alerts in minutes? That’s the promise Google Cloud pitched at its Security Summit 2025, where it unveiled a sweeping set of AI-driven capabilities—headlined by “agentic SOCs,” or security operations centers where AI…
Could you spot a cloud breach in five minutes—or would it blend into the noise? Modern attackers don’t brute-force your perimeter. They steal keys from a CI pipeline, spin up cryptomining in a region you never use, or quietly turn off logging to cover their tracks. That’s why mature cloud security operations rely on playbooks—repeatable…
Imagine this: You’ve locked down your Microsoft Entra environment, reviewed directory roles, and set up strict RBAC policies. You believe your guest accounts are well-contained, with only temporary, minimal access. But lurking beneath these well-laid defenses is a privilege escalation path that can turn even the most unassuming guest account into a high-impact security threat—all…
Have you ever stopped to wonder just how much faith you place in your cloud provider every day? If you’re like most organizations, the answer might surprise you. We upload, share, and process our most sensitive data in “the cloud,” assuming—often blindly—that it’s all safe and sound behind the scenes. But what if that trust…
Have you ever felt a chill when an old credential pops up in an unexpected place? You’re not alone. In the rush to modernize and build faster, most organizations are quietly amassing a ghost army of forgotten machine IDs—tokens, API keys, and service accounts that quietly multiply in the shadows of your cloud. For many,…
