Chapter 5

Evaluate security posture and recommend technical strategies to manage risk

When it comes to governance of workloads in the cloud, security posture management is the mechanism that will enable the team to answer the question, “how secure is the environment?” Security posture management provides on-demand visibility and asset coverage, including vulnerability management and security compliance reporting.

To drive a continuous improvement of your cloud security posture, you need to utilize tools that can perform ongoing assessments using different industry standards and bring visibility to the current security state of each workload.

Skills covered in this chapter:

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