Comparison of cloud resources (part I): Securing every layer of your cloud—from the control plane to apps

Part one of a four-part blog series that outlines the layers of cloud infrastructure—control plane, orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), platform (VMs, containers, serverless), and application—and summarizes common threats at each layer (for example: compromised API keys, misconfigured IAM, container misconfigurations and exposed secrets, malware on compute instances, VM escapes, API exploits, SQLi, XSS, and credential stuffing). The article emphasizes the need for monitoring logs, traffic, and configuration changes and previews defensive tools and further guidance in subsequent posts.