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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

Effective patch management and CSPM tools

Patch management is a critical component of cybersecurity and IT management that involves identifying, applying, and managing software patches and updates to address vulnerabilities and improve the security and stability of software systems, operating systems, and applications. The primary goals of patch management are to mitigate security vulnerabilities and ensure software reliability and compliance.

Patch management for cloud environments differs from its on-premises counterpart because of all the reasons explained previously.

The importance of timely and efficient patch management

As we’ve discussed, patch management is a critical component of cybersecurity and IT operations that focuses on the timely and efficient application of software updates, patches, and fixes to address known vulnerabilities in software, operating systems, applications, and hardware. The importance of timely and efficient patch management cannot be...