Cloud security posture management (CSPM) automates the identification and remediation of risks across cloud infrastructures, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (Saas), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). CSPM is used for risk visualization and assessment, incident response, compliance monitoring, and DevOps integration, and can uniformly apply best practices for cloud security to hybrid, multi-cloud, and container environments.
Why is CSPM So Important?
Over the course of a day, a cloud may connect and disconnect from hundreds or even thousands of other networks. This dynamic nature makes clouds powerful, but it also makes them hard to secure. And as a cloud-first philosophy becomes the norm, the problem of securing cloud-based systems becomes more acute.
Traditional security doesn’t work in the cloud because:
- there is no perimeter to protect
- manual processes cannot occur with the necessary scale or speed
- the lack of centralization makes visibility extremely difficult to achieve
While cloud-based computing delivers overall cost benefits, the security piece of that puzzle can eat into the ROI, as there are so many pieces that need to be managed – microservices, containers, Kubernetes, serverless functions, etc. The infamous cybersecurity skills gap is highly relevant here, as
