CloudGuard cybersecurity resources

I love the phrase “human in command”. We use it a lot at CloudGuard, and I mean every word of it. But there’s something the security industry rarely says out loud: putting humans in command is a double-edged sword. Humans are brilliant. Humans also get tired. SOC alert fatigue is...

What a week in the Nordics!  CloudGuard supported Microsoft Nordics on the SMB Security CSP Accelerate programme, a series of deep-dive events for in-country Microsoft partners focused entirely on SMB security.   Rather than launching anything new, the sessions were about accelerating partner understanding of the security capabilities already available,...

What is PHP? Firstly, PHP (originally Personal Home Page) is a server-side scripting language built and widely used for web page development. PHP runs code on a web server (on within a user browser) so when a user requests a page, the server executes the PHP code and fetches data...

If you work in IT or security, Cybersecurity Awareness Month probably looks familiar. Every webinar invite, every vendor email, every stand at every event is selling some version of the agentic Security Operations Center (SOC). Autonomous. Self-healing. An AI analyst that never sleeps. At CloudGuard, a UK-based Microsoft Security specialist...

TL;DR Prompt injection is an attack where untrusted text, either typed by a user or hidden in content an AI application reads, is treated by a large language model (LLM) as instructions. This can make the model ignore its rules or take actions it shouldn’t. Prompt injection is ranked the...

Microsoft Purview Data Ownership quick answers Is data protection IT’s job or the business’s? Neither alone, IT owns the tooling and enforcement; the business owns the judgment on what’s actually sensitive. Who decides what’s Confidential vs Internal? Departmental champions who understand their own data, not IT guessing on their behalf....

Ask someone “where’s your sensitive data?” and you’ll usually get a shrug. It’s not that they don’t know, it’s that the question is too broad to answer on the spot. Ask it a different way, and the answer shows up almost immediately. That’s the whole idea behind these two tools....

If you’re trying to work out which Microsoft Purview licence you actually need (and what it’s going to cost you if you get it wrong), you’re not alone. It’s one of the most common questions our team fields, and the answer is rarely as straightforward as Microsoft’s licence table makes...