What is it?
Cloud security involves policies, controls, procedures, and technologies to protect data, applications, and infrastructure in the cloud. By leveraging cloud provider tools alongside third-party solutions, you can maintain visibility, ensure compliance, and safeguard data across dynamic, scalable environments.
What could happen?
Without proper controls, cloud assets can be exposed to the public internet, mismanaged identities can grant attackers access to sensitive data, and unencrypted storage buckets can leak confidential information. Such failures lead to breaches, financial penalties, and damaged brand reputation.
What to do about it?
Foundational: Enable MFA on all cloud management accounts and apply basic security configurations recommended by the cloud provider (AWS CIS Benchmarks, Azure Security Centre, Google Security Command Centre).
Outcome: Establishes immediate baseline protections against common misconfigurations and credential attacks.
Enhanced: Implement role-based access controls and automated vulnerability scanning tools, regularly reviewing configurations to detect and address exposed buckets or insecure network settings.
Outcome: Reduces internal attack vectors, improves compliance, and enables proactive mitigation of known vulnerabilities.
Comprehensive: Integrate cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud workload protection platforms (CWPP) for continuous monitoring, automated remediation, and advanced threat detection across multiple cloud environments.
Outcome: Delivers a holistic, scalable security approach that dynamically adapts to new assets, services, and threats.
