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Mastering Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

By : Qamar Nomani
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Mastering Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

By: Qamar Nomani

Overview of this book

This book will help you secure your cloud infrastructure confidently with cloud security posture management (CSPM) through expert guidance that’ll enable you to implement CSPM effectively, ensuring an optimal security posture across multi-cloud infrastructures. The book begins by unraveling the fundamentals of cloud security, debunking myths about the shared responsibility model, and introducing key concepts such as defense-in-depth, the Zero Trust model, and compliance. Next, you’ll explore CSPM's core components, tools, selection criteria, deployment strategies, and environment settings, which will be followed by chapters on onboarding cloud accounts, dashboard customization, cloud assets inventory, configuration risks, and cyber threat hunting. As you progress, you’ll get to grips with operational practices, vulnerability and patch management, compliance benchmarks, and security alerts. You’ll also gain insights into cloud workload protection platforms (CWPPs). The concluding chapters focus on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scanning, DevSecOps, and workflow automation, providing a thorough understanding of securing multi-cloud environments. By the end of this book, you’ll have honed the skills to make informed decisions and contribute effectively at every level, from strategic planning to day-to-day operations.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Part 1:CSPM Fundamentals
6
Part 2: CSPM Deployment Aspects
11
Part 3: Security Posture Enhancement
19
Part 4: Advanced Topics and Future Trends

Reviewing CSPM Dashboards

The CSPM dashboard acts as a central command center, consolidating critical information from various cloud platforms and presenting it in a user-friendly manner. It serves as a single source of truth for security administrators, enabling them to monitor, assess, and remediate security risks across their cloud infrastructure. This chapter aims to equip you with a solid understanding of how the dashboard functions, its key features, and its role in enhancing cloud security. You will gain insights into the primary objectives of the dashboard and how it facilitates comprehensive security management, the core features and components of the CSPM tool, customization and configuration possibilities, data visualization, and reporting. You will also explore different dashboards, such as the compliance dashboard, identity dashboard, vulnerability dashboard, and reporting dashboard.

By the end of this chapter, you will have gained a comprehensive understanding of the...