Upwind’s Runtime Vulnerability Management

This post was written in early August 2026, ahead of our fwd:cloudsec Europe talk. On August 25, AWS launched the Access Troubleshooter (currently in public preview), a first-party feature that surfaces the request context for denied requests. We've updated this post to account for it. When the IAM engine evaluates your request, it matches your…

I have always been fascinated by what comes next. Growing up, I watched technology reinvent itself again and again, from early gaming and the dot-com era to SaaS, cloud, and modern software development. I remember wondering when I would get the chance to help build what came next. At the time, I was mostly watching…

Back to school season is here, which makes this a good moment to look at what changed in the threat landscape over the summer. AI-assisted attackers haven't climbed toward the top of the field so much as filled in the middle of it and the middle is the population almost no security program was designed…