Cloud Threat Detection for Banks: A Real‑Time Cloud Security Monitoring Blueprint for Indian BFSI
Banks do not get “second chances” with trust. One exposed bucket, one compromised cloud account, or one unmonitored SaaS integration can move millions in minutes and trigger RBI, SEBI, and board-level escalation in hours. As Indian banks accelerate cloud adoption, the uncomfortable truth is this: traditional perimeter security and once-a-day log review simply cannot see […]
Misconfigured AWS S3 Buckets: The Definitive 2026 Guide to Risks, Detection, and Prevention
Misconfigured AWS S3 buckets are one of the quietest but deadliest cloud risks your team faces today – and they’re still behind a majority of preventable cloud data breaches. This guide unpacks the real-world risks, how misconfigurations happen, and how modern platforms like Cy5’s ion cloud security engine close the gap from “oops” to “incident” […]
Event-Driven Cloud Security Architecture Explained: Design Patterns, Pipeline & Multi-Cloud Security
Cloud environments don’t get breached in slow motion anymore; they break in real time. A leaked key on Git, a misconfigured security group, an exposed object store – each of these can be discovered and exploited in minutes, not days. Traditional, schedule‑based security models that “scan every 4 hours” are fundamentally misaligned with this threat […]
Ransomware Attacks on Public Cloud Infrastructure: The 2026 Defense Blueprint for AWS, Azure, and GCP
In October 2024, security researcher Harsh Varagiya uncovered a technique that sent shockwaves through the cloud security community. Using customer-managed keys on AWS, attackers could encrypt files in a way that even the cloud service provider couldn’t recover them. This wasn’t a theoretical vulnerability – it was a glimpse into the evolving battlefield of cloud […]
Draft DPDP Rules 2025 – The Real Deal
Deep dive into the DPDP Rules announced in January 2025, which are likely to get enforced this year.
21 Cloud Security Tools for Hyper Growth Companies
What is Cloud Security? Cloud computing is a hosted service offered as software, hardware, or even storage over the web, often as a vital part of multi or hybrid cloud infrastructure. It provides excellent benefits such as faster deployments, scalability, agility, flexibility, and reduced up-front costs, regardless of the business size. By the same token, […]
Security Services in a Nutshell at re:Invent 2022
Public cloud is by far the most talked about topic in the infrastructure space today. According to Gartner, public cloud adoption has grown at an unprecedented rate over the last, and 20.4% in 2022 alone. During COVID, businesses that were offline, have gone online with the intent to stay relevant and public cloud happens to […]
16 AWS IAM Best Practices You Should Know
Before we get started with best practices around using AWS IAM, let’s get our head around some underlying concepts and risks associated with “not getting IAM right”. Though this post uses AWS IAM as a reference point, readers & security practitioners can draw a parallel to other public cloud IAM implementations as well. AWS Authentication […]
AWS Security Group Best Practices
What is a Security Group? An AWS security group is a virtual firewall which can be applied to one or more AWS resources to control its inbound traffic. One thing to keep in mind is that AWS security groups are all permissive in nature which means you can’t deny specific traffic sources with this firewall, you can […]
A Practical Approach to CERT-In 70B Compliance
CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) India is a national nodal agency that’s been around since 2004 and responsible for responding to cyber security incidents as they occur. India has faced an increasing level of cyber attacks over the last few years. In fact, according to an article by Business Standard, India is among the top 3 […]