Cloud Security
Can AWS Security Agent autonomously exploit 33 of 37 CVEs without PoC hints?
AWS tests its autonomous penetration tool against fresh vulnerabilities, showing high success rates while highlighting benchmark contamination risks.
Cloud Security coverage from CloudSec Press holds 22 articles, 18 of them reference guides. The newest was published on October 15, 2026. New stories are added as soon as they are confirmed, from more than 150 sources checked as often as every 45 seconds. Each story lists its sources. Primary sources we follow for this section include Cloud Security Alliance and CIS Benchmarks.
AWS tests its autonomous penetration tool against fresh vulnerabilities, showing high success rates while highlighting benchmark contamination risks.
Small teams lose more data through forgotten access rights than through active hacking, making periodic reviews the highest return security investment available.
Small businesses face distinct risks in each cloud model, requiring specific controls that shift from infrastructure hardening to application logic and user behavior management.
SaaS access reviews prevent privilege creep by systematically verifying user permissions, stopping dormant accounts from becoming silent entry points for attackers.
Unmanaged software creates hidden data exfiltration paths that bypass network controls and leave compliance gaps invisible to standard audits.
A visual model reveals hidden trust boundaries and misconfigurations that text-based policies often obscure during cloud infrastructure design.
Bot management works by analyzing behavior patterns and device fingerprints to separate helpful automation from malicious scripts in real time.
Microsoft reorganizes Azure management while promoting Arun Ulag to oversee databases and core engineering, alongside plans to deploy Maia 300 AI chips.
A recent report argues that the rapid expansion of cloud identity providers requires organizations to rethink their identity security foundations to ensure cyber resilience.
Most cloud breaches occur because default settings leave storage buckets and database ports open to the public internet during the transition phase.
SailPoint CEO Mark McClain says the surge in machine identities forces companies to secure AI agents in real time rather than relying on old perimeter defenses.
Cloud backup isolates data from primary infrastructure, ensuring recovery even when the main environment fails or is compromised by ransomware.
Your identity and access management system replaces network borders with policy engines that evaluate every request against user attributes and device health.
Serverless shifts the attack surface from infrastructure to code, making dependency management and event source validation your primary defense mechanisms.
Identity federation and conditional access remove more risk than password rules, yet most teams still rely on weak defaults.
Public storage buckets often leak data because default configurations prioritize accessibility over security, leaving sensitive files visible to anyone on the internet.
SASE merges network and security functions into a single cloud service, but it shifts the risk from perimeter defenses to identity management and cloud configuration.
Most cryptojacking attacks bypass network firewalls entirely because they use legitimate cloud APIs to install mining software on already running instances.
Your container image is a static artifact that retains every command history and unused library, creating a permanent attack surface long after development ends.
Admission controllers enforce policy before workloads run, blocking misconfigurations that firewalls cannot see inside your cluster.
Most cloud security failures occur not because threats bypassed the broker, but because the broker was configured to enforce policies that business units could not sustain.
Disconnecting network access preserves evidence while stopping data exfiltration, whereas shutting down the instance destroys the forensic timeline needed for investigation.