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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

CSPM Tools and Features

Cloud security posture management (CSPM) tools enable businesses to continuously monitor their cloud environments, identify security risks, comply with industry standards such as the Center for Internet Security (CIS), and take appropriate action to mitigate those risks. As growing numbers of organizations move their applications and data to the cloud, they face new and complex security challenges. CSPM tools can provide a centralized view of an organization’s cloud infrastructure and resources, enabling security teams to quickly identify and address security issues before they become major threats. It becomes imperative to understand the specific need to choose the right tool as it comes with significant costs, especially the third-party ones.

This chapter highlights the importance of understanding the CSPM tools. It also compares and highlights the significance of cloud-native CSPM tools and cloud-agnostic CSPM tools. The previous chapter helped...