Overview
Misconfigurations (e.g., open S3 buckets, overly permissive IAM roles) are the leading cause of cloud data breaches. CSPM tools continuously monitor cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) to ensure it adheres to security best practices and regulatory standards.
Key Capabilities
- Continuous Monitoring: Real-time visibility into cloud resources.
- Misconfiguration Detection: Identifying settings that deviate from security baselines (e.g., CIS Benchmarks).
- Compliance Auditing: Checking for violations of standards like HIPAA, PCI DSS, or SOC 2.
- Automated Remediation: Automatically fixing common security flaws.
- Risk Visualization: Providing a dashboard of the organization's overall cloud security health.
Importance
CSPM is essential for managing the complexity and scale of modern cloud environments, where manual auditing is impossible.