Notes on the Vercel / Context.ai OAuth incident, and how Upwind stands with its community through moments like these. On April 19, Vercel disclosed a security incident stemming from a compromise of a third-party AI tool, Context.ai, whose Google Workspace OAuth application was abused by an attacker. A Vercel employee signed into Context.ai using their […]

The Problem Nobody Wants to Admit  More data doesn’t automatically mean better security. It often means more homework. Anyone who has sat in a security engineering seat knows the drill: map private to public IPs, line up container IDs with hosts, connect GUIDs to service accounts, and reconcile correlation IDs across distributed apps. Each source […]

Cloud security architecture rarely begins with a grand design. More often, it evolves through necessity, one decision at a time, shaped by scale, cost, and the operational realities of modern cloud environments. Looking back, that evolution follows a familiar path. It’s a journey many cloud security engineers have taken, divided into three distinct generations, each […]