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Cloud Exposure

Vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, attack paths, crown jewels and cloud risk.

Cloud Exposure

What one ignored S3 bucket actually costs, line by line

The financial impact of an open finding exceeds the theoretical price of a breach. Calculating the developer tax and insurance liability is the only way to fund a backlog cleanup.

Sam Devlin  -  July 24, 2026 · 6 min
Cloud Exposure

One EC2 setting is generating one in seven of your cloud alerts

One in seven cloud security alerts involves failing to enforce IMDSv2, a gap that leaves temporary IAM credentials exposed to theft.

Sam Devlin  -  July 5, 2026 · 7 min
Cloud Exposure

Rotating the leaked key takes 10 minutes. Finding its owner takes 3 weeks

Detection is a solved problem, but rotation remains a destructive operation. Reducing the secret backlog requires a shift from automated alerts to human-supervised remediation workflows.

Sam Devlin  -  July 3, 2026 · 6 min
Cloud Exposure

Nobody touches IAM findings, because nobody wants to cause the outage

Cloud security teams face thousands of overprivileged IAM roles, but the fear of breaking production prevents remediation. Human-supervised closure is the only path to least privilege.

Sam Devlin  -  July 1, 2026 · 6 min
Cloud Exposure

You closed the public S3 finding. It reopened on Monday

Cloud security teams often fix the same public S3 bucket three times in a month because manual overrides and automated scripts fail to address the underlying infrastructure-as-code drift.

Sam Devlin  -  June 23, 2026 · 5 min
Cloud Exposure

The same 6 misconfigurations keep coming back. Here is the pattern

Detection tools surface thousands of alerts, but the manual effort to fix a single cloud misconfiguration still takes hours.

Sam Devlin  -  May 23, 2026 · 6 min
Operator Briefing

The week in cloud remediation, once a week

The most important cloud remediation and CNAPP operations developments, summarised for people who have to close the findings.

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