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93 publications
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Know where cloud AI services process your prompts

Bedrock inference profiles, Foundry deployment types and Agent Platform endpoints each decide where a prompt is processed, separately from where data rests. Compare what each provider commits to and how to enforce it.

AI systems · Amazon Web Services / Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud · By Cloud Security Desk
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Compare managed prompt attack filters in Bedrock, Azure and Vertex AI

Bedrock Guardrails, Azure Prompt Shields and Google Cloud Model Armor all score text for injected instructions. They differ in which content reaches the classifier, how you mark it, and what each one skips.

AI systems · Amazon Web Services / Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud · By Cloud Security Desk
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Build a cryptographic inventory for the post-quantum transition

Record where public-key cryptography protects long-lived data and which library, service or vendor must change it. Then rank entries by function and data lifetime, not by how many RSA keys a scanner found.

Workload security · NIST / CISA / Office of Management and Budget / Amazon Web Services / Google Cloud / Microsoft Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
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Choose a multi-region database consistency model before you need failover

The replication model decides which writes survive a Region failure. Compare asynchronous and quorum options in DynamoDB, Aurora, Spanner and Cosmos DB by recovery point, write latency and the reconciliation each one leaves you.

Resilience · Amazon Web Services / Google Cloud / Microsoft Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
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Track EU AI Act deadlines after the Digital Omnibus delay

The Digital Omnibus moved high-risk AI duties to December 2027 and August 2028, but prohibitions, AI literacy and Article 50 transparency already apply. See which dates moved and what cloud teams should build now.

AI systems · European Union / European Commission · By Cloud Security Desk
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Defend cloud admin accounts against help desk social engineering

Attackers who talk a help desk into resetting MFA inherit every cloud console behind single sign-on. Verify callers properly, shrink what a reset hands over, and alert on the events it leaves.

Detection & response · Microsoft Entra / Okta / Amazon Web Services / CISA / Mandiant · By Cloud Security Desk
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Give AI agents their own identity instead of borrowed user tokens

An agent that replays a user's token is invisible in logs and cannot be revoked on its own. Give it a principal, delegate narrowly through token exchange, and use what Entra, AgentCore and Google now provide.

Identity & access · Microsoft Entra / Amazon Web Services / Google Cloud / IETF / Model Context Protocol · By Cloud Security Desk
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Protect and recover your AWS root account

Protect AWS root access with MFA, current recovery contacts, separate daily administration, and a clear plan for Organizations member accounts.

Identity & access · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Make CloudWatch alarms handle missing data correctly

Choose how CloudWatch alarms treat missing data, understand evaluation surprises, test notifications, and preserve useful alarm evidence.

Detection & response · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Count tokens before sending a prompt to Amazon Bedrock

Count a Bedrock prompt for the chosen model, check endpoint support, distinguish context and output limits, and verify usage without logging prompts.

AI systems · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Choose an RDS recovery window you can actually restore

Choose RDS backup retention, inspect the real restorable interval, validate an isolated database restore, and record cleanup and recovery limits.

Resilience · AWS · By Cloud Security Desk
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Give Google Cloud teams access through IAM groups

Give Google Cloud teams IAM access through owned groups, choose a sensible resource scope, and verify migration and removal with practical checks.

Identity & access · Google Cloud · By Cloud Security Desk
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Call Vertex AI from Cloud Run without a service account key

Use a Cloud Run service account and ADC to call Vertex AI, separate deployment and runtime permissions, and remove an obsolete prototype key.

AI systems · Google Cloud · By Cloud Security Desk
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Set up Cloud SQL backups and prove you can restore

Configure Cloud SQL PostgreSQL backups, understand retention settings, and rehearse a restore through database validation and application cutover.

Resilience · Google Cloud · By Cloud Security Desk
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Get an Azure alert when a role assignment changes

Detect successful RBAC changes and test alert delivery without expanding a production role.

Detection & response · Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
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Handle Azure OpenAI rate limits without retry storms

Separate deployment quota, short request bursts and bounded client retry behavior.

AI systems · Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
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Recover a deleted Azure blob with soft delete

Choose the right recovery action for a blob, version or container and verify restored bytes.

Resilience · Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
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Recover a deleted Azure Key Vault secret

Distinguish secret recovery from vault recovery and verify versioned application references.

Resilience · Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
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Design application authorization before writing Cedar policies

Define business actions, trustworthy entities and tenant boundaries before writing Cedar policies, then make the application responsible for enforcing the resulting decision.

Identity & access · AWS / Cedar · By Cloud Security Desk
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Keep Kubernetes audit records useful without logging secrets

Design a question-led Kubernetes audit policy with explicit body limits, rule precedence, lifecycle stages and provider-specific acceptance checks.

Detection & response · Kubernetes / AWS / Azure / Google Cloud · By Cloud Security Desk
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Bind confidential GPU inference to a verified key release

Require composite evidence, owner policy and verified recipient binding before confidential inference receives protected key material.

AI systems · NVIDIA / Azure · By Cloud Security Desk
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Make PostgreSQL point in time recovery reproducible

Build a version-aware recovery chain from protected base backups and WAL through timeline selection, isolated replay and application acceptance.

Resilience · PostgreSQL · By Cloud Security Desk
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Choose who can share an inference prefix cache

Choose the principals allowed to share prefix state, then carry that decision through request routing, offload, transfer and restore.

AI systems · vLLM / NVIDIA · By Cloud Security Desk
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Separate webhook authenticity from permission to process it

Verify webhook authenticity at intake, then make durable acceptance, duplicate handling and permission to change business state separate decisions.

Workload security · Stripe / GitHub / IETF · By Cloud Security Desk