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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

Skills and talent gap

Addressing the human factor in CSPM is essential for ensuring that individuals within an organization contribute effectively to maintaining a secure cloud environment. The human factor involves the actions, behaviors, and decisions of people that can impact the security of cloud configurations. As CSPM continues to play a crucial role in securing cloud environments, organizations face challenges related to a shortage of skilled professionals in cloud security. Addressing these skills and the talent gap is essential for ensuring the effective implementation and management of CSPM solutions. This section provides an overview of the challenges, followed by strategies to bridge the gap.

Key challenges

The skill gap and talent challenges in the cloud security space significantly impact organizations’ abilities to effectively secure their cloud environments. Here are some of the skill gap and talent challenges that organizations face:

  • Shortage of...