Cloud Workload Protection
What is Cloud Workload Protection?
Security solutions that protect workloads running in cloud environments from vulnerabilities, malware, and unauthorized access across their lifecycle.
Terms that appear alongside cloud workload protection
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as cloud workload protection. The number is how many controls name both.
- cloud security 7 shared controls
- security posture 6 shared controls
- cloud infrastructure security 5 shared controls
- infrastructure security 5 shared controls
- soc 2 5 shared controls
- audit 5 shared controls
- cloud workload protection platform cwpp 4 shared controls
- cloud security posture management 4 shared controls
Frameworks that govern cloud workload protection
What the standards actually require on cloud workload protection
Requirements naming cloud workload protection across 6 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 - CrowdStrike Falcon + Trend Micro Deep Security + Wiz + Lacework + Orca Security + Aqua + Sysdig + Prisma Cloud) + image and template hardening (Packer + Hashicorp +...
NISTSP144-7 · Cloud Workload Protection, Containers, Serverless, and Configuration →Cloud workload protection. Control from NIST SP 800-190 framework, domain: NIST SP 800-190: Cloud Infrastructure Security.
NIST190-18 · Cloud workload protection →Lloyds MS11.6 Secure Configuration and Change Management - configuration baselines aligned with industry benchmarks (CIS Critical Security Controls v8 + CIS Benchmarks for Windows + Linux + cloud + container + DISA STIGs where applicable) + Infrastructure-as-C...
LLOYDS-MS11-Secure-Configuration-Change-Management-Network-Segmentation-Perimeter-Defence-MS11-6-15 · Lloyds MS11 Secure Configuration + Change + Network Segmentation + Perimeter + MS11.6-15 →HKMA TM-G-1 Cyber + Audit + Outsourcing + Cloud. (1) SECURITY MONITORING AND SIEM (TM-G-1.7.1) - SIEM + SOC + 24x7 monitoring + log management + correlation + use cases + alert handling + escalation + UEBA + behavior analytics + SOAR automation + threat detect...
HKMA-TMG1-Cyber-Monitoring-Threat-Intel-IR-Audit-Outsource-Cloud · TM-G-1 Security Monitoring + SIEM + Threat Intel + Cyber IR + Audit + Outsourcing + Cloud Computing Risk →Section 9.4 of IRS Publication 1075 establishes specific requirements for cloud services and addresses the prohibition on offshore processing of FTI.
IRSPub1075-Section94-Cloud-FedRAMP-Offshore-Prohibition-CSP-USRegion-PrivateGovCloud-AzureGov-AWSGov · IRS Pub 1075 Section 9.4 + Cloud Services + FedRAMP Authorisation Required + Offshore Prohibition + AWS GovCloud + Azure Government + Oracle US Federal + Google Workspace Federal + US-Region Data Residency →Questions people ask about cloud workload protection
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