In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen an increase in the popularity of hybrid and multi-cloud environments, supercharging an existing trend as a result of the need to connect on-premise, remote and hybrid teams. This shift has brought with it a new array of security issues, compliance concerns and vulnerabilities as traditional security solutions have quickly proven obsolete. CISOs need visibility across the entire cloud environment to effectively manage configuration and governance.
As business reliance on the cloud increases, cloud security posture management (CSPM) is one of the latest methods used to ensure that the risks cloud adoption brings are addressed by enterprises. CSPM upgrades compliance to the cloud era, managing the configuration of increasingly complex hybrid and public cloud environments.
In a traditional IT environment, misconfiguring a network gateway, firewall or server could place the entire business at risk of attack. However, there were usually a limited number of devices making it easy to regularly check and ensure security compliance.