THREAT‑WATCH
Glossary
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
Tools that continuously scan cloud environments for misconfigurations, like publicly exposed storage buckets, that create security risk.
Cloud misconfiguration, not a sophisticated exploit, is one of the leading causes of cloud data breaches, since a single wrong permission setting can expose an entire database to the public internet. CSPM tools continuously audit cloud environments against security best practices and compliance frameworks, flagging drift as new resources are spun up, which happens constantly in fast-moving cloud environments.