Sensitive data is the crown jewel of every organization and the primary target for attackers. But in modern cloud environments, it’s increasingly difficult to answer key questions, like, “Where is our data? How is it used? What’s putting it at risk?” Consider the example shown below – an organization has security tooling in place, but […]

Modern cloud-native environments offer unprecedented speed, scalability, and developer agility – but they also introduce complexity that traditional security tools struggle to manage. Containers spin up and down in seconds, microservices multiply rapidly, and infrastructure changes dynamically. Static logs and agent-based security solutions simply can’t keep up. That’s where eBPF comes in –  and why […]

At Upwind Security, we’re excited to bring a new kind of CNAPP to life – one that puts APIs and applications at the center of cloud defense. APIs have become the backbone of modern cloud-native architectures, yet they remain one of the most overlooked and exploited entry points. It’s not just a future concern; it’s […]

As organizations continue to scale their cloud-native applications across multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments, the complexity of threat detection has reached a new high. Traditional, signature-based approaches are no longer sufficient – they often fail to catch modern attacks that unfold subtly across layers of infrastructure and identity. Upwind introduces a powerful new approach to cloud […]

Kubernetes, often called K8s, is revolutionizing how organizations deploy and manage containerized applications. Originally developed by Google and now open-source, Kubernetes has become a standard for orchestrating containers across on-premises, hybrid-cloud, and public cloud environments. But with this increased flexibility and scalability comes a new range of security challenges that require thoughtful, proactive solutions. In […]

Keeping open source container images up to date and secure is hard. Teams face long, noisy lists of available updates and often can’t tell which are relevant or risky. Upwind helps by showing what’s actually running in your environment and giving clear, context-based recommendations. The Open Source Security Challenge Most containerized environments rely heavily on […]

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 […]

Cybersecurity Terms From A (Attack Paths) to Z (Zero Days) What are the most common cybersecurity terms you need to know at a glance? This dictionary goes beyond the basic tools and threats teams need to track, but also defines the principles, architectural risks, and gray areas where even mature organizations struggle. Aligning cloud posture? […]

Container use is here to stay. Even as of 2020, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation found that 92% of organizations had adopted containerized workloads, up 84% from the previous year, and soaring 300% above their initial adoption rate in 2016. Yet that adoption isn’t without risk: 86% of container images in production contain critical or […]