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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

Leveraging cloud-native monitoring solutions

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, cloud-native monitoring solutions have become a cornerstone of effective cybersecurity. They offer real-time visibility into your cloud infrastructure, allowing you to proactively manage and secure your resources. Since CSPM tools are also mostly cloud-native, and bring the deep visibility of multi-cloud environments, it is important to explore whether CSPM can be used as monitoring solutions. Let us find out how along with some other important topics.

Can CSPM tools be used as cloud-native monitoring solutions?

CSPM tools are primarily designed to ensure the secure configuration of cloud resources and compliance with security policies within cloud environments. While CSPM tools play a crucial role in enhancing cloud security, they are not typically used as direct replacements for cloud-native monitoring solutions, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems, or Security...