The rush to adopt cloud technologies can sometimes feel like sprinting towards a cliff's edge.
Data breaches, compliance violations, overwhelmed teams - these troubling trends have become far too commonplace these days - especially when you consider that the cloud was supposed to make everything more simplified, streamlined and straightforward.
CNAPP aims to deliver integrated visibility, security and governance across the full scope of cloud environments by consolidating various disjointed tools into a unified control plane.
1 - Fragmented Security ToolsMany companies nowadays rely on a patchwork of cloud security tools - Cloud Access Security Brokers, Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, posture checkers - the list goes on.
We're talking cloud security posture management, cloud workloads, identity and access governance, and runtime application self-protection.
With all key controls under one roof, you finally gain end-to-end visibility into identities, permissions, activities, assets and threats across your cloud environments.
2 - Lack of Visibility Across Cloud EnvironmentsTrying to manage security consistently across on-prem, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments is enormously difficult.
The sheer variety of infrastructure and services can quickly turn your cloud footprint into a massive monitoring blindspot.
The platform automatically discovers cloud accounts, resources, services, identities and permissions across the stack.
With global end-to-end visibility and control through the CNAPP lens, you can finally implement unified governance, security, and compliance across all your cloud usage and infrastructure.
No more cloud security blindspots due to fragmented visibility.
Just one platform connecting all the dots across your cloud ecosystem.
3 - Difficulty Managing Cloud MisconfigurationsCloud misconfigurations have become a major security soft spot.
If an S3 bucket permission is too permissive, encryption gets disabled, or if a cloud resource goes unpatched, CNAPP raises alerts and can trigger corrective workflows.
Rather than scrambling to lock down cloud environments after seeing an attack pattern in logs, the door never gets left open in the first place.
5 - Overwhelmed IT TeamsUnderstaffed IT and security teams struggle to manually piece together cloud oversight using disjointed tools.
As we've seen, CNAPPs hold enormous potential to unify and streamline cloud management by bringing end-to-end visibility, security and governance together under one roof.
No more needing to cobble together a patchwork of siloed tools or juggle endless cloud complexities.
The most robust platforms span entire cloud estates-including IaaS, PaaS, containers, functions and data.
With streamlined cloud governance, they confidently scale footprint and workloads.
This Cyber News was published on securityboulevard.com. Publication date: Tue, 02 Jul 2024 11:13:05 +0000