2 verified briefings on Cloud Security. Each story includes a plain-English summary, why it matters, and the concrete action engineering teams should take.
Microsoft details an attack where a threat actor used a single compromised identity to breach an entire cloud environment. The attack began with social engineering and escalated through Microsoft Entra ID and M365 to compromise critical Azure services, including databases and virtual machines.
A standard, cached AWS access key on a single machine, without any misconfiguration, can provide an attacker with extensive access to a company's cloud environment. This highlights how normal operational behavior can inadvertently create significant security vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure.