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Misconfiguration

An unintended or insecure setting on a cloud resource, such as a public storage bucket or an overly permissive role – the leading cause of cloud breaches.

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Ephemeral misconfiguration

A misconfiguration – like a briefly public resource – that appears and disappears within a short period, often invisible to scanners when it occurs between assessment cycles.

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Policy drift

A mismatch between a resource's actual configuration and the state defined by a security policy, regardless of when or how that mismatch was introduced.

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Exposure window

The time a misconfiguration sits live and exploitable: time-to-detect plus time-to-remediate. In a purely reactive model, it can never reach zero.

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Guardrail

An enforced boundary that prevents a non-compliant change from taking effect, rather than simply flagging it for someone to review later.

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