Cybercrime Patterns Targeting Cloud Infrastructure in 2025
In March 2025, a mid-market SaaS company we monitor watched their AWS bill jump from $14,000 to $310,000 in eleven days. No new product launch. No traffic spike. An at…
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Encryption Key Management Across AWS, Azure, and GCP
It is 3:14 AM and an alert fires from our SIEM. A developer at a fintech client just exported a customer master key reference from a CI pipeline log. The key itself ne…
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Automated Vulnerability Scanning for Cloud Resources: A Checklist
In March, a fintech client called us at 2 AM because an attacker had pulled 14GB of customer records from an S3 bucket that nobody on their team remembered creating. T…
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Data-at-Rest Encryption for Cloud Storage: Pick a Strategy
A financial services client we onboarded last year had every firewall rule tuned, MFA enforced across the board, and a clean vulnerability scan. Their cloud storage bu…
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Azure Security Center: A Checklist for Unified Security
During an incident response engagement last month, we traced a lateral movement chain (MITRE ATT&CK T1021.001) across a client’s hybrid environment—Azure VMs, on-prem…
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Cloud Security Posture Management: What Your SIEM Misses
We inherited an environment where an S3 bucket had been publicly readable for 14 months. The client ran monthly vulnerability scans. They had a SIEM. They had endpoint…
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XaaS Cloud Service Models: Security Guide for IT Teams
Beyond the traditional IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models, modern cloud computing delivers a growing range of specialized services collectively known as XaaS – Anything as a…
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