Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management

As more and more organisations transition their operations to the cloud, and infrastructures become increasingly diverse, the issue of cloud security has never been more prevalent. CSPM tools are needed to ensure that any risks are monitored and evaluated since a cloud host cannot be held fully responsible for security.

Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Security Posture Management is a holistic solution that automates management across this infrastructure.

An in-depth look at Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Security Posture Management

Unfortunately, cloud security breaches are now commonplace; even though the majority of these are due to misconfigurations, the responsibility for ensuring security within the cloud is the responsibility of your organisation alone. This means you need to do whatever you can to mitigate against this threat.

The complexity of cloud infrastructure means that misconfigurations can happen easily. This complexity also means that identification of these misconfigurations is not straightforward. The solution is to automate the job of constant monitoring, ensuring all results are visible.

This is what Check Point’s CSPM solution offers. It is part of the fully integrated and unified CloudGuard system. Let’s take a look in greater detail.

The role of the CSPM

A CSPM is there to do the following:

1. Monitor and assess organisational compliance policies
2. Monitor operational activity and confirm how assets fit with policies and regulations
3. Review how threats are being addressed
4. Identify and calibrate potential risks
5. Monitor assets and their configuration within the cloud

Check Point’s CloudGuard CSPM performs these tasks with ease and at scale across multiple cloud providers in real time. Once you have specified your policies, CloudGuard CSPM will ensure these are implemented across each cloud.

CloudGuard will automate security management across IaaS, SaaS and PaaS infrastructures.

The importance of automation

Managing Cloud Security is a perpetual task; threats or misconfigurations can occur at any time. Unless your CSPM is fully automated, your security posture will be compromised. Automation also extends to include AI, meaning your CSPM will be continually learning and implementing from new threats.

An automated solution also means visibility across an entire cloud infrastructure with an intuitive UI.

Cloud Intelligence Essentials

CloudGuard CSPM now includes Cloud Intelligence Essentials. By combining security best practice, Cloud Intelligence Essentials will create a baseline of account activity and identify any suspicious activity. Network administrators will receive real-time alerts to help immediate remediation activity.

Governance Specification Language (GSL)

Included in CloudGuard CSPM is a GSL builder that is capable of reducing 100 lines of code to 100 characters. It is human readable and machine enforceable, supporting auto-deployment for all types of programming languages. This means that precious time can be saved when creating custom rules and restrictions.

Threat Intelligence

CloudGuard includes best-in-class protection over IAM users and roles. Administrators can manage individual permissions with ease across the whole cloud environment, affording superb protection against identity theft and compromised credentials.

Customiseable Dashboards

A dashboard provides a powerful view of the summary data within the CPSM tool. Taking data from different Cloudguard sources across the different cloud providers, displaying it integrated in a single dashboard gives you the flexibility to see the data you are interested in, and to create your own dashboards to meet you individual needs.

Privileged Identity Protection

With Just-In-Time privilege escalation included within the Check Point CloudGuard Security Posture Management tool, allowing and denying access to specific actions based upon users and roles is straightforward and easy to implement.