As businesses accelerate cloud adoption across AWS, Azure, and GCP, cloud security has become the backbone of modern cyber resilience. Misconfigurations, identity gaps, exposed APIs, and supply chain flaws are responsible for the majority of cloud breaches in recent years.
“Cloud doesn’t remove security responsibility. It redistributes it. And ignoring that is fatal.”
Cloud Security is the discipline of securing data, applications, and services hosted in the cloud through:
It involves shared responsibility between the cloud provider and the customer:
| Security Model | Responsibility |
|---|---|
| ☁️ Cloud Provider | Physical infra, hypervisor, core services |
| 👤 Customer | Data, users, access, apps, network config, workloads |
| Pillar | Description |
|---|---|
| 🔐 Identity and Access Management (IAM) | Least-privilege access, role separation, MFA |
| 🧱 Network Security | VPC rules, firewalls, subnet segmentation, peering controls |
| ☁️ Configuration Management | Secure-by-default posture, encryption, logging enabled |
| 🧑💻 Workload Protection | Container & VM hardening, runtime threat detection |
| 📜 Governance and Compliance | Adherence to standards (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA) |
| 🧠 Threat Detection & Response | CSPM, SIEM integration, ML anomaly detection |
| 🔄 Automation & DR | CI/CD security, auto-remediation, backup validation |
Incident: A global marketing firm exposed 1TB of customer data via a publicly readable AWS S3 bucket.Root Cause: No S3 bucket policy, misconfigured ACLs.Mitigation:
BlockPublicAccessIncident: Ex-employee exploited SSRF flaw in WAF → accessed metadata → retrieved IAM credentials → exfiltrated 106M records.Root Cause: Excessive IAM permissions, lack of metadata access guardrails.Mitigation:
Threat: A crafted container could overwrite host binaries and escape sandbox.Mitigation:
| Tool/Framework | Purpose |
|---|---|
| AWS Security Hub | Unified dashboard for AWS security posture |
| Azure Defender / Microsoft Defender for Cloud | Threat detection + compliance across workloads |
| GCP Security Command Center | Cloud-native CSPM + threat detection |
| HashiCorp Vault | Secure secrets & credentials management |
| Prowler / ScoutSuite | Cloud misconfiguration scanners |
| Falco | Cloud-native runtime threat detection for containers |
| Open Policy Agent (OPA) | Policy-as-code enforcement |
| MITRE ATT&CK Cloud Matrix | Map cloud-specific adversary behaviors |
At CyberDudeBivash, we’re exploring AI-enhanced cloud defense via:
Example:
An AI engine monitors GCP firewall rules and flags unintended open ports that deviate from the baseline.
| Threat Vector | Example |
|---|---|
| 🚪 Over-permissioned IAM roles | Developers with admin access to prod |
| 💣 Exposed storage buckets | Publicly accessible S3 or GCS buckets |
| 🧱 Misconfigured security groups | Open to the world (0.0.0.0/0) |
| 🛠️ Vulnerable container images | Running unscanned or outdated base images |
| 🔓 Leaked credentials | Hardcoded API keys in GitHub |
| 🤖 Malicious AI agents | Prompt-injection abusing AI-integrated apps |
At CyberDudeBivash, we help organizations implement:
Cloud security is no longer optional — it’s foundational.
As workloads shift from traditional data centers to serverless and containers, defenders must rethink security:
“The cloud moves fast. Your security strategy must move faster.”
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