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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

Containerization overview and its benefits

Containerization is a method of lightweight virtualization that involves the isolated packaging of an application and its dependencies into a self-contained unit called a container. Containers provide an isolated and consistent runtime environment, allowing applications to be easily deployed and executed across different computing environments, such as development machines, servers, and cloud platforms.

Benefits of containerization

Containerization has revolutionized the way applications are developed, deployed, and managed. Some key advantages include the following:

  • Portability: Containers possess remarkable portability, facilitating the consistent execution of applications across various operating systems, cloud platforms, and infrastructure environments. This inherent mobility effectively eliminates the pervasive issue of “works on my machine” and simplifies the deployment process.
  • Scalability: Containers...