CSPM

CSPM is an acronym for Cloud Security Posture Management. CSPM is a system which combines various tools and practices to identify and remediate risks and misconfigurations in their cloud environments. Having good CSPM measures is important for avoiding unnecessary exposure of an Organizations assets against cyber threats. Key concepts within CSPM is: Continuous monitoring, Misconfiguration detection, compliance management, Risk assessment, Automated remediation, Multi-cloud support, Threat Detection, Policy enforcement.

Continuous monitoring & Misconfigured detection

  • Using CSPM tools to monitor the configuration that are used in a system and alerting the user if there are unnecessary exposure with the configuration is a way discovering vulnerabilities earlier and fix them.

Compliance management

  • Compliance management is about using tools and policies to make sure that the organization is following the regulations of the country they are operating inn. Here an organization can use automated tools to create reports that shows where the organization is following the regulations and where it is not.

Risk assessment

  • Risk assessment is about rating the vulnerabilities based on consequences. Good risk assessment will help an organization to prioritize all the vulnerabilities that they have to fix. An Organization can use various tools that will rate vulnerabilities that exist in the system. Looking into CVSS score is also a tool that can be used to rate the vulnerabilities.

Policy enforcement & Automated remediation

  • An Organization can enforce various policies that will make their system automatically remediate misconfigurations and other vulnerabilities because it is not following the policies. Policies enforcements can be things like password rules, encryption rules and access control.

Multi-cloud support

  • Having a multi-cloud solution can help with making their assets more secure. Clouds systems have tools like Azure Arc or AWS outposts to support a multi-cloud environment.

Threat Detection

  • CSPM tools can also be used to detect threats as they are happening. This can be done by continuously monitoring the system and look for behaviors and patterns happening in the system. This will help detecting cyber incidents early and speed up the response time to mitigate the damage.

Conclusion

When an organization uses cloud services there will be inbuilt tools that the organization can use to secure their assets better. These inbuilt security tools is what we call CSPM.