Cloud Security Posture Management
What is Cloud Security Posture Management?
A category of security tools that continuously monitor cloud infrastructure for gaps in security policy enforcement. CSPM solutions identify misconfigurations, compliance violations, and security risks across multi-cloud environments.
Terms that appear alongside cloud security posture management
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as cloud security posture management. The number is how many controls name both.
- cloud security 9 shared controls
- security posture 9 shared controls
- cloud security posture management cspm 6 shared controls
- hardening 4 shared controls
- cloud workload protection 4 shared controls
- remediation 3 shared controls
- vulnerability 3 shared controls
- remote access 3 shared controls
Frameworks that govern cloud security posture management
What the standards actually require on cloud security posture management
Requirements naming cloud security posture management across 3 standards, quoted from the control text.
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 →Per OWASP DSOMM Build and Deployment + Infrastructure Hardening dimensions: secure the build + deployment + infrastructure stack. Requirements include (a) implement signed builds + artefact integrity + secure pipeline configuration + (b) operate vulnerability...
DSOMM-3 · Build, Deployment, Infrastructure Hardening, and Secrets Management →Questions people ask about cloud security posture management
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