Imagine you’re Mike, a security engineer at a fast-growing fintech startup. One morning, you are notified of a zero-day vulnerability in a popular open-source library used across multiple containers. You drop everything, messaging developers, digging through logs, mapping services – only to realize the vulnerable code never actually runs in production. You’ve just spent days […]

As serverless computing continues to gain momentum, developers and DevOps teams are increasingly turning to Microsoft Azure Functions to build scalable, event-driven applications with minimal infrastructure overhead. However, the very benefits of serverless – rapid deployment, fine-grained event handling, and abstracted infrastructure – introduce new challenges for security teams. These environments are harder to monitor […]

On June 6, 2025, Reuters reported that OpenAI is appealing a U.S. court order requiring the company to preserve all user interactions with ChatGPT and its API, including conversations that users deleted. This legal mandate stems from an ongoing copyright lawsuit filed by The New York Times and has effectively suspended OpenAI’s standard data deletion […]

We are excited to announce a new enhancement to Upwind’s posture capabilities, with Upwind now providing comprehensive executive-level Configuration Reports. Users can now generate and download configuration reports, powered by live runtime data, directly from the UI. These reports deliver clear, actionable summaries of posture risk and misconfiguration findings, making it easier for security leaders […]

With Upwind’s recent major releases of Inventory 2.0 and Custom Policies and Frameworks, security teams can now define security posture rules that reflect their specific requirements. These rules automatically adapt to infrastructure and workload, keeping compliance in step with real time conditions.  In this article, we will dive into how the Upwind Explorer enables teams to […]

Upwind is launching a new capability designed to accelerate time-to-value: Organizational Onboarding. Organizational Onboarding is a new method of deployment for Upwind’s Agentless Cloud Scanners that enables faster, more efficient onboarding and cloud coverage. It is now available for all major cloud providers – including support for AWS, Google and Azure. What is Organizational Onboarding? The […]

Upwind is focused on a simple but powerful idea: security only matters when it can lead to action. Our platform delivers real-time, runtime intelligence – enriching posture findings with deep behavioral context, API and identity awareness, and actual exploitability signals. But even the most advanced detection loses value if remediation is slow, manual, or siloed. […]

We’re excited to announce that the Upwind Sensor now officially supports NixOS. This marks a major step forward for teams running fully declarative infrastructure – NixOS users can now seamlessly deploy and manage the Upwind Sensor using the reproducible, version-controlled workflows they already trust for the rest of their system. What is NixOS? NixOS is […]

It was a regular Thursday when Lisa, a DevOps lead at a mid-sized fintech company, got an alert: Log4Shell, a zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, was being exploited. Confident in their security posture, she checked the SBOM. No Log4j. But as network anomalies piled up, a manual scan revealed the truth – Log4j was buried in […]

Upwind is a hybrid solution that utilizes both agentless cloud scanners along with our industry-leading eBPF-based sensor to ensure deep visibility and security in every environment. Our Agentless Azure Cloud Scanner builds out graph inventory, then overlays secrets exposure, vulnerabilities scanning, internet exposure, configuration findings and more – enabling a rapid onramp to capabilities such […]