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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

Onboarding Containers

Organizations are increasingly adopting cloud-native architectures to enhance scalability, agility, and cost-effectiveness as a result of the rapidly evolving digital landscape. They are leveraging containerization to enhance their application deployment processes. Containers offer portability, scalability, and agility, allowing businesses to accelerate software development and delivery. However, they introduce unique security challenges that must be addressed to maintain a strong security posture. With increased complexity comes the need for robust security measures to protect containerized environments from potential vulnerabilities and threats. Onboarding containers to a CSPM tool is a vital step in this process, enabling organizations to extend their security capabilities to containerized workloads and effectively mitigate risks.

In this chapter, we will delve into the intricacies of onboarding containers to a CSPM tool, equipping security professionals...