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This is how they describe it: "The foundation of successful CSPM for multiple clouds is the ability to continuously monitor and audit all resources across all CSPs. Whenever a new service or workload is deployed or a configuration is changed, your tools must be able to detect and scan the update to ensure it complies with security requirements and best practices." Okay, there are a few key phrases here:
According to Palo Alto, the leader in Cloud Security Posture Management.
To achieve cloud maturity you need Visibility, Compliance, and Governance layers over just security.
Continuous Monitoring
No this is not you sitting in front of a dashboard all day long, this is referring to the automated gathering of intelligent and correlated alerts. Security controls are known to generate a lot of noise, and thousands of alerts per day. Rather than going through logs of failed logins, time is better spent looking at alerts showing the correlation between how many failed logins occurred within let's say 1 minute, a potential indication of a brute force attack. Continuous monitoring should be more than just monitoring alerts, it should be seen and used as a governance tool for the CXO and business owners to maintain and manage their security programs.
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Posture Management. Know Your Cloud Assets, Asset Security Posture, Access Control and Application Security to Build Cloud Cyber Resilience
CLOUD SECURITY
Posture Management. Know Your Cloud Assets, Asset Security Posture, Access Control and Application Security to Build Cloud Cyber Resilience
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Resource Auditing
As part of continuous monitoring and a more mature security program, auditing assets and understanding the current security posture of these assets measured against established baselines and internal/external regulations is key to achieving cyber maturity. Know your assets, which ones are online/offline, which security controls are used, and whether are they up to date and in line with business objectives? Especially with cloud-based assets, due to their elasticity, servers might be spun up or down to adapt to capacity requirements, you want to make sure those new servers get the right controls at runtime and are not overexposed to the internet.
Comprehensive Threat Detection
The complex nature of threats in multi-cloud environments means CSPM tool sets need to collect threat intelligence from a variety of sources to gain accurate risk visibility. Where the source is an asset like a VM, regular scans need to be performed to check for and fix vulnerabilities as part of threat mitigation activities.
Simply scanning these components, however, is insufficient to deliver full threat intelligence and detection. For that, your organization must also maintain high-fidelity threat intelligence so you can identify the latest threats and assess their severity level. The ability to detect anomalies in the network and correlate them with other types of threat data is important for gaining full context on the potential risk impact of any threat.
A good CSPM will detect threats on assets, on the network, and on applications including the threat of being out of compliance with industry regulations. Data should be displayed in easy to understand and customizable dashboards and reports. even better is when the dashboards are part of an integrated ecosystem receiving feeds from multiple sources.
Ultimately a good CSPM platform should integrate Network security, workload protection, application security and threat intelligence if you really want to make that shift towards cyber resilience.
No this is not you sitting in front of a dashboard all day long, this is referring to the automated gathering of intelligent and correlated alerts. Security controls are known to generate a lot of noise, and thousands of alerts per day. Rather than going through logs of failed logins, time is better spent looking at alerts showing the correlation between how many failed logins occurred within let's say 1 minute, a potential indication of a brute force attack. Continuous monitoring should be more than just monitoring alerts, it should be seen and used as a governance tool for the CXO and business owners to maintain and manage their security programs.
This is how they describe it: "The foundation of successful CSPM for multiple clouds is the ability to continuously monitor and audit all resources across all CSPs. Whenever a new service or workload is deployed or a configuration is changed, your tools must be able to detect and scan the update to ensure it complies with security requirements and best practices." Okay, there are a few key phrases here:
Resource Auditing
As part of continuous monitoring and a more mature security program, auditing assets and understanding the current security posture of these assets measured against established baselines and internal/external regulations is key to achieving cyber maturity. Know your assets, which ones are online/offline, which security controls are used, and whether are they up to date and in line with business objectives? Especially with cloud-based assets, due to their elasticity, servers might be spun up or down to adapt to capacity requirements, you want to make sure those new servers get the right controls at runtime and are not overexposed to the internet.
Continuous Monitoring
According to Palo Alto, the leader in Cloud Security Posture Management:
To achieve cloud maturity you need Visibility, Compliance, and Governance layers over just security.
Comprehensive Threat Detection
The complex nature of threats in multi-cloud environments means CSPM tool sets need to collect threat intelligence from a variety of sources to gain accurate risk visibility. Where the source is an asset like a VM, regular scans need to be performed to check for and fix vulnerabilities as part of threat mitigation activities.
Simply scanning these components, however, is insufficient to deliver full threat intelligence and detection. For that, your organization must also maintain high-fidelity threat intelligence so you can identify the latest threats and assess their severity level. The ability to detect anomalies in the network and correlate them with other types of threat data is important for gaining full context on the potential risk impact of any threat.
A good CSPM will detect threats on assets, on the network, and on applications including the threat of being out of compliance with industry regulations. Data should be displayed in easy to understand and customizable dashboards and reports. even better is when the dashboards are part of an integrated ecosystem receiving feeds from multiple sources.
Ultimately a good CSPM platform should integrate Network security, workload protection, application security and threat intelligence if you really want to make that shift towards cyber resilience.
CLOUD SECURITY
Posture Management. Know Your Cloud Assets, Asset Security Posture, Access Control and Application Security to Build Cloud Cyber Resilience
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