Cloud Security Posture Management
Cloud Security Posture Management
- CSPM: Continuously monitors and manages cloud environments (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) to identify misconfigurations, compliance risks, and security gaps.
- Purpose: Prevents breaches caused by misconfigured storage, weak IAM, or exposed cloud services.
- Configuration Monitoring: Scans cloud accounts (AWS, Azure, GCP) for risky settings like open buckets or permissive IAM roles.
- Compliance Management: Maps cloud configurations to GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, CIS Benchmarks; generates audit-ready reports.
- Risk Detection & Alerting: Identifies misconfigurations, policy violations, and suspicious activity.
- Remediation & Automation: Auto-fixes issues and provides guided steps for secure configurations.
- Visibility & Inventory: Centralized view of all cloud assets, services, and workloads.
- Benefits: Reduces misconfigurations, ensures continuous compliance, improves visibility, accelerates remediation, supports DevSecOps.
- Use Cases: Detect exposed storage, overly permissive IAM, misconfigured Kubernetes clusters, automate compliance, monitor multi-cloud environments.
- Leading Solutions: Prisma Cloud, Check Point CloudGuard, Wiz, Orca Security, Trend Micro Cloud One, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Lacework.