Most cloud breaches trace back to simple configuration errors. Continuous audits, identity controls, and workload protections are essential to keep cloud environments secure.

#CloudSecurity #CWPP #CloudMisconfigurations #InfosecK2K

โ˜๏ธ Cloud Security Tools โ€” Essential Toolkit for Modern Teams ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ๐Ÿš€

Cloud environments introduce new risks and require specialized tooling to secure workloads, configurations, and data. Use a mix of CSP-native and third-party tools to cover posture management, runtime protection, identity, and visibility. Key categories and examples: Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) โ€” Prisma Cloud, Dome9, Wiz for misconfig & compliance checks ๐Ÿ”; Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP) โ€” CrowdStrike, Trend Micro, Aqua for container and VM runtime defense ๐Ÿณ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ; Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) โ€” Netskope, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps for SaaS visibility & data control โ˜๏ธ๐Ÿ”; Identity & Access Management โ€” AWS IAM/Azure AD hardening, BeyondTrust, Okta for strong auth & least privilege ๐Ÿ”‘; Threat Detection & SIEM โ€” Splunk, Sumo Logic, Datadog + cloud-native logging for alerting and forensics ๐Ÿ“Š; Vulnerability & Configuration Scanning โ€” Qualys, Tenable, Trivy for images and infra-as-code scanning โš™๏ธ; Secrets Management โ€” HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager for safe key handling ๐Ÿ”; and Supply-chain & CI/CD security โ€” Snyk, Checkov, GitHub Advanced Security to catch insecure deps and pipelines ๐Ÿงฉ.

โš ๏ธ Disclaimer:
For educational & defensive use only. Evaluate tools against your cloud provider, compliance needs, and threat model before deploying. Always test changes in staging before production. ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ”’

#CloudSecurity #CSPM #CWPP #IAM #DevSecOps #InfoSec #Cloud #CyberSecurity #SecurityTools #Compliance #ContainerSecurity โ˜๏ธ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ

via SBCFireInfo ๐Ÿฆ

Public Input Needed: Draft CWPP & Transportation Study

The #SantaBarbara County Fire Department is seeking public input on the Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) and Transportation Study for the Santa Barbara Foothill Communities. The Draft CWPP is now available for public review until March 11, 2025.

๐Ÿ”น Public Review Period: February 11 โ€“ March 11, 2025
๐Ÿ”น Virtual Public Meeting: Thursday, February 27, 2025 | 6:00 โ€“ 7:30 PM | Register Here

Your feedback is crucial in shaping wildfire preparedness and community safety. Review the draft plan and register for the public meeting at: ims.dudek.com/sbfoothillscwpp

#SBCFire #WildfirePreparedness
#CWPP

Cloud security startup Upwind nets $100M in Series A, triples valuation to $900M

The Israeli company, founded by former Spot.io executives, plans to accelerate its global expansion plans and enhance its cloud security platform.

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๐Œ๐š๐ฉ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ซ ๐ˆ๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐‚๐จ๐๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐‚๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ƒ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐‚๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐

When a vulnerability is identified in a container image stored in a container registry or running in a Kubernetes cluster, it can be difficult for a security practitioner to trace back to the CI/CD pipeline that first built the container image and identify a developer remediation owner.

With DevOps security capabilities in Microsoft Defender Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), you can map your cloud-native applications from code to cloud to easily kick off developer remediation workflows and reduce the time to remediation of vulnerabilities in your container images.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-cloud/bridging-the-gap-between-code-and-cloud-with-defender-for-cloud/ba-p/4042557

Details: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/container-image-mapping

#defender #cspm #CloudSecurityPostureManagement #devops #pipeline #codetocloud #container #vulnerabilities #Kubernetes #cnapp #cwpp #cloudnative #cloudsecurity #soc #microsoft #microsoftsecurity #azure #multicoud

Bridging the Gap Between Code and Cloud with Defender for Cloud

This blog post explores how Defender for Cloud streamlines the process of tracing vulnerabilities in container images back to their origins in CI/CD pipeline..

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๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Œ๐ข๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ญ ๐ƒ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐‚๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐‹๐š๐›๐ฌ

Our labs project help you get ramped up with Microsoft Defender for Cloud and provide hands-on practical experience for product features, capabilities, and scenarios. The labs are divided into 3 main tracks, a beginner (level 100/200) and an advanced (level 300+) track. The labs contain several modules cover different pillars such as Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) to Cloud Workload Protection (CWP). To start using our labs, you will need to create Azure Trial Subscription which provides you all capabilities for 30 days โ€“ so you have to finish this lab at this point to take advantage of the free trial.

https://github.com/Azure/Microsoft-Defender-for-Cloud/tree/main/Labs

#defender #defenderforcloud #cnapp #cspm #cwp #cwpp #cloudsecurity #multicloud #azure #aws #gcp #microsoft #microsoftsecurity #soc #server #container #storage #dns #api #devops #database #api #github #arc #agentless #storageaccount #mde #vulnerability #mdvm #siem

Microsoft-Defender-for-Cloud/Labs at main ยท Azure/Microsoft-Defender-for-Cloud

Welcome to the Microsoft Defender for Cloud community repository - Azure/Microsoft-Defender-for-Cloud

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VMware Carbon Black: ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ๋ฐ ๊ทœ๊ฒฉ
NGAV ๋ฐ EDR ํ™œ์šฉํ•œ ์ •๋ณด๋ณด์•ˆ ์—…๋ฌด์— ์ฐธ๊ณ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๊ทœ๊ฒฉ์„œ ์ •๋ฆฌ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์†”๋ฃจ์…˜ ๋„์ž… ๊ฒ€ํ† ์— ์ฐธ๊ณ ํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
- https://bs.etevers.tech/books/carbon-black/page/cloud-workload-protection-platfom-cwpp

#VMware #CarbonBlack #CWPP #containersecurity #infosec #์ •๋ณด๋ณด์•ˆ

Cloud Workload Protect... | ETEVERS BookStack

๊ฐœ์š”   VMware์˜ ์›Œํฌ๋กœ๋“œ ๋ณด์•ˆ ์ œํ’ˆ์ธ Carbon Black Cloud์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ๋ฐ ๊ทœ๊ฒฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์—๋””์…˜ ๋ณ„๋กœ ๋ช…์‹œ...

Steps Forward: Can โ€˜CNAPPโ€™ solutions truly unify cloud, on-premises best cybersecurity practices?

Byron Acohido hosts a #CNAPP conversation with #Runecast, Data Theorem, Palo Alto Networks, and #Gartner.

#CSPM #CWPP
https://www.lastwatchdog.com/steps-forward-can-cnapp-solutions-truly-unify-cloud-on-premises-best-cybersecurity-practices/

Steps Forward: Can โ€˜CNAPPโ€™ solutions truly unify cloud, on-premises best cybersecurity practices? | The Last Watchdog

A fledgling security category referred to as Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) is starting to reshape the cybersecurity landscape. Related: Computing workloads return on-prem CNAPP solutions assemble a varied mix of security tools and best practices and focuses them on intensively monitoring and managing cloud-native software, from development to deployment. Companies are finding that CNAPP [โ€ฆ]

The Last Watchdog

๐—›๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ ๐—™๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—”๐—ฝ๐—ฝ?

๐š‚ฬฒ๐šŽฬฒ๐šŒฬฒ๐šžฬฒ๐š›ฬฒ๐šŽฬฒโ€‚ฬฒ๐š˜ฬฒ๐š™ฬฒ๐šŽฬฒ๐š›ฬฒ๐šŠฬฒ๐šฬฒ๐š’ฬฒ๐š˜ฬฒ๐š—ฬฒ

โžก๏ธDefender for Cloud for assessment of potential configuration-related security vulnerabilities

โžก๏ธLog and monitor: diagnostic settings to configure streaming export of platform logs and metrics

โžก๏ธRequire HTTPS

โžก๏ธSecuring keys with Azure key Vault

โžก๏ธEnable App Service Authentication/Authorization

โžก๏ธUse Azure API Management (APIM) to authenticate requests

โžก๏ธRun your function app with the lowest possible permissions

โžก๏ธStore data encrypted

๐š‚ฬฒ๐šŽฬฒ๐šŒฬฒ๐šžฬฒ๐š›ฬฒ๐šŽฬฒโ€‚ฬฒ๐šฬฒ๐šŽฬฒ๐š™ฬฒ๐š•ฬฒ๐š˜ฬฒ๐šขฬฒ๐š–ฬฒ๐šŽฬฒ๐š—ฬฒ๐šฬฒ

โžก๏ธDisable FTP

โžก๏ธSecure the scm endpoint

๐™ฝฬฒ๐šŽฬฒ๐šฬฒ๐š ฬฒ๐š˜ฬฒ๐š›ฬฒ๐š”ฬฒโ€‚ฬฒ๐šœฬฒ๐šŽฬฒ๐šŒฬฒ๐šžฬฒ๐š›ฬฒ๐š’ฬฒ๐šฬฒ๐šขฬฒ

โžก๏ธSet access restrictions

โžก๏ธSecure the storage account

โžก๏ธPrivate site access with Azure Private Endpoint

โžก๏ธDeploy your function app in isolation configuring a Web Application Firewall (WAF) for App Service Environment.

More details: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/security-concepts?tabs=v4

#security #azure #cloud #data #management #streaming #functionapp #serverless #waf #appservice #privateendpoint #networksecurity #securedeployment #apim #ftp #keyvault #key #vulnerability #assessment #misconfiguration #encryption #storage #storageaccount #defender #defenderforcloud #cnapp #cspm #cwpp #microsoft #microsoftsecurity #cloudsecurity #cloudnative #siem #monitoring #soc

Securing Azure Functions

Learn about how to make your function code running in Azure more secure from common attacks.

Was really cool today to add #WatchDuty to our #CWPP draft today. Srsly