Solutions like Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud and Microsoft Defender for Cloud offer preventive, proactive approaches to cloud security posture management, providing continuous monitoring and automated remediation.
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Cloud security posture management (CSPM) should, ideally, automate the identification and, even more ideally, the remediation of risks to cloud infrastructure. This includes Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS).
Here are some of the solutions that specifically tout their preventive/proactive approach to cloud security.
Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud emphasizes that it proactively addresses risks through a "prevention-first" framework, and offers automated remediation of issues it identifies. A relatively recent addition to its CSPM portfolio is an SCA module for proactive vulnerability remediation based on runtime context.
Lacework integrates with the major public clouds and offers what it calls its "Polygraph technology". In this approach, it builds a baseline of how an environment operates and uses behavioral analytics to detect abnormal activity to help proactively manage risk and compliance. It also offers the option to combine its CSPM with
security agents for additional telemetry to help analyze workload processes and anomaly detection.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud (formerly known as the Azure Security Portal) can be extended to provide work with AWS and GCP resources as well. It continually assesses those resources and provides prioritized security recommendations to help with vulnerability management. It promotes its step-by-step instructions admins can take to protect workloads, and its "hardening guidance", based on security misconfigurations and weaknesses, to help improve security.
Orca and Wiz are two more players for consideration in the CSPM market.
Orca offers an agentless platform for detecting vulnerabilities across cloud estates and prioritizes the riskiest vulnerabilities according to accessibility, potential business impact, and CVSS scores. It promotes its ability to reduce the API attack surface, in particular, through preventive steps that help security teams identify and prioritize API risks.
Wiz scans cloud environments from end to end, without agents, to identify cloud blind spots. It connects via API to AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Alibaba Cloud, VMware vSphere, Openshift, and Kubernetes, and attempts to identify issues and provide warnings ahead of potential infiltration into your cloud systems.
Finally, perhaps not one of the big names in CSPM, DivvyCloud promotes its ability to offer real-time analysis and automation across leading cloud and container technologies. It normalizes the data it gathers across cloud environments to identify risks and enable action according to user-defined policies and rules which can be set up to alert, mitigate, or remediate problems.
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Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solutions help organizations monitor and manage cloud infrastructure security, ensuring compliance with industry standards. They continuously assess for potential risks and vulnerabilities, providing insight and guidance to maintain a secure cloud environment.
As cloud utilization increases, CSPM solutions are indispensable in maintaining robust cloud security. They provide automated tools for identifying misconfigurations and compliance violations...
Solutions like Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud and Microsoft Defender for Cloud offer preventive, proactive approaches to cloud security posture management, providing continuous monitoring and automated remediation.
Cloud security posture management (CSPM) should, ideally, automate the identification and, even more ideally, the remediation of risks to cloud infrastructure. This includes Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS).
Here are some of the solutions that specifically tout their preventive/proactive approach to cloud security.
Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud emphasizes that it proactively addresses risks through a "prevention-first" framework, and offers automated remediation of issues it identifies. A relatively recent addition to its CSPM portfolio is an SCA module for proactive vulnerability remediation based on runtime context.
Lacework integrates with the major public clouds and offers what it calls its "Polygraph technology". In this approach, it builds a baseline of how an environment operates and uses behavioral analytics to detect abnormal activity to help proactively manage risk and compliance. It also offers the option to combine its CSPM with
security agents for additional telemetry to help analyze workload processes and anomaly detection.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud (formerly known as the Azure Security Portal) can be extended to provide work with AWS and GCP resources as well. It continually assesses those resources and provides prioritized security recommendations to help with vulnerability management. It promotes its step-by-step instructions admins can take to protect workloads, and its "hardening guidance", based on security misconfigurations and weaknesses, to help improve security.
Orca and Wiz are two more players for consideration in the CSPM market.
Orca offers an agentless platform for detecting vulnerabilities across cloud estates and prioritizes the riskiest vulnerabilities according to accessibility, potential business impact, and CVSS scores. It promotes its ability to reduce the API attack surface, in particular, through preventive steps that help security teams identify and prioritize API risks.
Wiz scans cloud environments from end to end, without agents, to identify cloud blind spots. It connects via API to AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Alibaba Cloud, VMware vSphere, Openshift, and Kubernetes, and attempts to identify issues and provide warnings ahead of potential infiltration into your cloud systems.
Finally, perhaps not one of the big names in CSPM, DivvyCloud promotes its ability to offer real-time analysis and automation across leading cloud and container technologies. It normalizes the data it gathers across cloud environments to identify risks and enable action according to user-defined policies and rules which can be set up to alert, mitigate, or remediate problems.