Cloud Configuration Management
What is Cloud Configuration Management?
Processes and tools for maintaining secure and compliant configurations of cloud resources, preventing misconfigurations that lead to data exposure.
Terms that appear alongside cloud configuration management
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as cloud configuration management. The number is how many controls name both.
- configuration management 8 shared controls
- cloud infrastructure security 5 shared controls
- infrastructure security 5 shared controls
- container security 3 shared controls
- cloud security posture management 3 shared controls
- cloud security 3 shared controls
- security posture 3 shared controls
- cloud security posture management cspm 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern cloud configuration management
What the standards actually require on cloud configuration management
Requirements naming cloud configuration management across 3 standards, quoted from the control text.
Cloud configuration management. Control from NIST SP 800-190 framework, domain: NIST SP 800-190: Cloud Infrastructure Security.
NIST190-20 · Cloud configuration management →ISMAP Cloud Infrastructure controls cover the underlying compute + network + storage + management plane. (1) Virtual Network Segmentation: VPC Virtual Private Cloud isolation + subnets + security groups + NACLs + microsegmentation + service mesh (Istio + Linke...
ISMAP-CloudInfrastructure-NetworkSegmentation-Container-Serverless-WorkloadProtection-Hardening-ConfigManagement · ISMAP Cloud Infrastructure - VPC Network Segmentation + Container/Serverless Security + Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP) + Image/Template Hardening + CIS Benchmarks + Configuration Management + IaC →Apply Section 7.5 cloud workload protection covering CWPP (Cloud Workload Protection Platform) + image and template hardening (golden image builds + AMI/VHD hardening + scanning) + container security (image scanning + admission control + runtime monitoring for...
NISTSP144-7 · Cloud Workload Protection, Containers, Serverless, and Configuration →Questions people ask about cloud configuration management
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