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  1. Cloud Security

    Cloud guardrails before detection: why prevention must happen at the boundary

    Cloud posture programs that stop at detection can spend weeks rediscovering the same classes of misconfiguration. As cloud and attacker velocity increase, the stronger model is to turn high-confidence security requirements into enforceable boundaries — preventing unsafe state where possible, detecting what cannot be prevented, and remediating the remainder under explicit policy.

    Rapticore Editorial16 min read

  2. Cloud Security

    What you don’t know CAN hurt you

    A true incident story: an undocumented link from development to production, a zero-day, and sixteen hours in a war room. Why cloud risk starts with knowing what is actually in your environment.

    Ahsan Mir5 min read

  3. Cloud Security

    What’s in the cloud?

    No one knows what is in the cloud — especially your cloud. Why the industry chases the shiny new thing while the first control in every framework, asset management, stays unsolved.

    Ahsan Mir3 min read

  4. Cloud Security

    Democratize security

    Organizational silos give teams unequal access to data and decisions, and security finds out about the next billion-dollar bet two weeks before launch. The case for a shared, real-time view everyone can act on.

    Ahsan Mir4 min read

  5. Cloud Security

    Just enough asset management

    Asset management initiatives fail because they try to deliver too much. JEAM reduces collection to the minimum attribute set that drives every security and IT process — gathered automatically, in near real time.

    Ahsan Mir3 min read

  6. Cloud Security

    Rise of the blender: chaining low-severity vulnerabilities in the era of agentic AI

    Agentic attackers will chain low- and medium-severity misconfigurations into full compromises. One worked example on AWS — nine findings, none critical, one breach — and what it means for prioritization.

    Ahsan Mir4 min read

  7. Cloud Security

    Protecting your AWS infrastructure against CodeFinger ransomware

    CodeFinger encrypts S3 buckets with customer-managed keys AWS cannot recover. A service control policy that stops new CMKs reaching S3, how to deploy it, and the simpler way to hold the line.

    Rapticore Editorial2 min read

From the glossary

  • Attack path — An attack path is the ordered sequence of steps — pivots, credentials, misconfigurations, and reachable network edges — that an attacker would traverse from a foothold to a business-critical asset. Attack paths are more actionable than isolated findings because they explain which fixes actually reduce reachable risk.
  • Exposure — Exposure is the subset of an organization’s attack surface that is reachable from the internet — including domains, records, certificates, services, and dependent third parties — and that could serve as an entry point for an adversary.
  • Authorized validation — Authorized validation is the practice of confirming an exposure by executing a scoped, permissioned check against the target — reproducing the evidence an attacker would see without harming the target or leaving persistent artifacts.
  • Guardrail — A guardrail is a preventive control that blocks a risky change at the boundary — for example, a policy that prevents a cloud identity from being created with wildcard permissions. Guardrails succeed by narrowing the space of possible misconfigurations rather than reacting to them after the fact.
  • Cloud posture — Cloud posture is the aggregate configuration state of an organization’s cloud environment — resources, identities, networks, and controls — measured against a defined policy baseline and expressed as a set of prioritized findings.