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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

Different deployment methodologies

CSPM deployment methodologies refer to the various approaches by which CSPM tools are deployed within an organization’s cloud environment to assess and manage its security posture. These methodologies are broadly categorized as agent-based, API-based, and proxy-based, and they determine how the CSPM tool interacts with the cloud resources, collects data, and performs security analysis. When selecting a CSPM tool and deployment methodology, it is essential to consider factors such as the tool’s capabilities, integration with the cloud provider’s APIs, scalability, ease of deployment and management, and the organization’s specific security and compliance objectives.

Let’s delve into the details of each CSPM deployment methodology.

Agent-based deployment

This strategy involves installing an agent on each cloud workload that needs to be monitored. The agent can collect data on the workload’s security...