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Get expert guides on cloud security assurance for your business. We cover AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud security. This category helps you build a strong defense. Use our cloud security assurance steps to pass audits and manage your risk.

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Cloud Security

Cloud Shared Responsibility Model: Where Your Compliance Obligation Begins

Most security and compliance leaders know their cloud provider carries SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications. Many assume those certifications cover their organization's compliance obligations. They do not. AWS's SOC 2 report attests...

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Cloud Security

Cloud Security Compliance Frameworks: CSA CCM, ISO 27017, and SOC 2 Mapped for Multi-Cloud

How many cloud security compliance frameworks apply to your organization right now? Not the ones your CISO listed in the last board presentation. All of them. The framework your AWS environment technically falls under because...

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Cloud Security

FedRAMP 20x Compliance Guide: Key Security Indicators, Phases, and What Changes in 2026

The September 30, 2026 deadline that RFC-0024 imposes for machine-readable authorization packages is approaching with negligible Rev5-pipeline adoption. RFC-0024's September 30, 2026 deadline applies broadly to new provider submissions (LMR-GEN-ICR) and the start of annual-assessment...

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Cloud Security

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

Your cloud engineering team provisioned a new production workload on AWS last quarter. Three Kubernetes namespaces, two RDS instances, and a handful of Lambda functions. The SOC 2 auditor arrives and requests three artifacts: configuration...

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The Authority Brief

One compliance analysis per week from Josef Kamara, CPA, CISSP, CISA. Federal and private compliance, written for practitioners.