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Mastering Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

Mastering Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

By : Qamar Nomani
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Mastering Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

Mastering Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

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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)
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Part 1:CSPM Fundamentals
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Part 2: CSPM Deployment Aspects
11
Part 3: Security Posture Enhancement
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Part 4: Advanced Topics and Future Trends

Effective vulnerability management and CSPM tools

As we have already discussed, vulnerability and patch management are some of the core features of major CSPM tools. A CSPM tool can play a crucial role in effective vulnerability management by helping you identify and remediate vulnerabilities in your cloud environment. But here is a point to ponder – an organization may already have vulnerability management tools such as Qualys, OpenVAS, and Tenable Nessus for managing vulnerabilities of their traditional data center and on-premises infrastructure. Why do they need a CSPM tool for vulnerability management in their cloud infrastructure? Is it worth spending additional cost on a CSPM tool for this purpose? What are the advantages of a CSPM tool over a traditional tool?

Let’s understand how vulnerabilities are different in cloud environments and why they need extra attention.

Cloud vulnerabilities and CSPM tool relevance in the hybrid cloud

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