Cloud Security Posture Management

Definitions

1. Cloud Security Posture Management is continuous assessment of cloud resources against security baselines, identity risk, and configuration drift. Security teams use it to enforce trust, reduce exposure, improve detection, or standardize secure operations in production environments. Its value depends on correct configuration, lifecycle management, and surrounding controls, because weak defaults, poor integration, or missing visibility can create gaps that attackers exploit.

   In plain English: Cloud Security Posture Management is a security concept or control that helps organizations protect systems, manage trust, and notice suspicious behavior before damage spreads.

   Example: "After the review, the security team rolled out Cloud Security Posture Management in the affected environment, documented the operating procedure, and verified through logs and test cases that the control reduced exposure without breaking normal administrative or user workflows."

Related Terms

• SIEM
• Certificate Transparency
• Anomaly Detection
• Attack Surface Management
• Auto-Remediation
• CASB
• Cloud Access Security Broker
• CSPM
• Group Policy
• Cloud Penetration Testing
• Cloud Workload Protection
• Cross-Tenant Attack
• Honeynet
• PAC File Security
• Public Cloud Security