Understanding Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

Stop piecemealing your cybersecurity program together with disparate tools that return too much data with little or no context. Tenable One Cloud Exposure gives you a unified, single view of your cloud attack surface so you can proactively address risks across all of your environments.

Modern organizations operate across highly complex, distributed environments. As the attack surface expands and applications quickly spin up and down in the cloud, it can be increasingly difficult to get a handle on all of the risks across your threat landscape. These issues are further complicated by the lingering impact of disparate resources and tools designed to help secure your environments but instead return data that’s hard to digest and apply to your real-world work environments. 

If these issues weren’t difficult enough to overcome, with a shortage of cybersecurity professionals around the globe, many teams struggle to get the right people in the right positions to ensure they’re on top of emerging risks and new vulnerabilities. 

But, getting comprehensive insight across your entire attack surface — even multi-cloud environments — doesn’t have to overwhelm your teams. By implementing unified cloud security posture management, your security professionals can more effectively get visibility into all of your cloud assets, reduce risk, improve compliance and proactively remediate misconfigurations and other security issues. 

In this CSPM data sheet, learn more about how you can: 

• Speed up cloud adoption and meet compliance requirements 
• Unify cloud security across your vulnerability management teams, cloud security architects and engineers, and developers and DevOps engineers 
• Automate drift detection and orchestrate remediation 
• Build cloud-security best practices into your DevSecOps workflows

Vulnerability management from cloud to code: Your guide to modern CSPMs

As your cloud environments become more complex and dynamic, it can be difficult to get visibility into all of the vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and other security issues. Many teams also get bogged down in reactive security measures, stuck in a loop of addressing exposures after deployment, instead of proactively seeking those out while still in development.

So, how do you get complete and continuous visibility into all of your assets, including those in the cloud, so you can seek out and remediate issues before attackers take advantage of them? This is where CSPM plays an important role in your exposure management strategy. By employing CSPM, your teams can effectively extend vulnerability management from code to the cloud.

This white paper explores how you can fully secure your cloud environments, find and fix software flaws and discover and remediate identity compromises and misconfiguration issues across your software development lifecycle — and down your supply chain.

Read on to learn more about:

• How to secure infrastructure as code (IaC)
• How to remediate in IaC
• What to look for in a CSPM solution

Cloud breaches are continuing to increase, even as organizations make more investments in cybersecurity tools such as threat detection and incident response. Almost half of breaches today are cloud-based, highlighting poor cloud cyber hygiene practices that open doors to cyberattacks.

Misconfigurations, unpatched vulnerabilities and outdated systems in the cloud are often overlooked or undetected — everything from open ports and unencrypted data to malware and permissions and authentication issues. On top of that, most security teams are already struggling to keep up with the vast amount of security alerts they get and attackers are eager to exploit any attack vector they can find.

In this white paper, learn more about:

• High-profile breaches and what you can learn from them
• How to prevent cloud breaches
• How to assess, prioritize and remediate cloud risks
• Benefits of cloud security frameworks

If you have questions about CSPM, Tenable Connect is a great place to connect with others who have similar interests and want to learn more about building effective cloud security programs and how to mature existing cloud security measures.

As more organizations embrace the cloud, especially with the growing number that moved to remote teams during the pandemic, security and compliance teams are trying to keep up with managing cloud risks. Cloud security posture management is a tool that can help. With automated detection, teams can ramp up their abilities to detect and fix cloud security and compliance issues, especially for those developed and deployed in the cloud.

While CSPM initially focused on finding and fixing exposures in runtime, along with monitoring for drift, it’s becoming increasingly necessary to shift left to give much-needed attention to security throughout the entire software development lifecycle — from code to cloud.

But, with many CSPM solutions on the market, how do you know which is best for your organization?

First, look for a cloud security solution that enables your teams to do four key things:

Want more information about what to look for in a CSPM solution and how to discover which CSPM is best for your organization? Check out our guide, "Vulnerability Management from Cloud to Code: Your Guide to Modern CSPMs."

For most cloud-native applications, a traditional approach to cloud security focuses on discovering infrastructure-related vulnerabilities such as policy violations and cloud-resource misconfigurations after deployment. Yet, doing so inherently introduces unnecessary cyber risks into your cloud environment. Once these issues happen in runtime, there is an increased chance an attacker could exploit them.

The alternative and much-more proactive solution is to seek out and resolve these security issues early in the software development lifecycle and then continuously monitor after deployment.

So, how do you do this? It begins with integrating cloud security from an infrastructure as code perspective so you can more effectively see and address your risks from coding and integration and from delivery through deployment.

With Tenable One Cloud Exposure, for example, you can detect and remediate security risks even before provisioning your public cloud infrastructure for cloud-native applications. From there, it can also help prevent vulnerabilities or other security issues from occurring in IaC. Then, after development, you can use it to detect any changes to your cloud environment, and then update source code so application updates don’t create new vulnerabilities.

Tenable One Cloud Exposure will empower your cloud security teams with a unified view of all of your cloud assets and their related vulnerabilities so you can understand where you’re exposed to cloud risks, anticipate the attack consequences and then effectively remediate issues and communicate risks across your organization for better decision-making.

As cloud environments become more dynamic and complex, security teams face challenges with knowing what all their cloud assets are, who’s using them, and how they’re being used. Without this insight, it’s hard to know which vulnerabilities and security weaknesses need your attention. And, if your teams are manually tracking these assets, it’s nearly impossible to keep an accurate inventory. If you don’t know what you have, especially in the cloud, how can you secure it?

Tenable One Cloud Exposure enables your organization to embrace and accelerate cloud adoption strategies with confidence you’re meeting cloud security and compliance requirements. It creates a unified view of your attack surface, enabling automated cloud vulnerability management.

Here are a few benefits of Tenable One Cloud Exposure: