CloudGuard Posture Management
A unified platform for managing compliance and security across multi-cloud environments.
| Category | Security Posture Management |
|---|---|
| Last page update | 19 days ago |
| Pricing Details | Contact for pricing details. |
| Target Audience | Organizations using multi-cloud environments. |
CloudGuard Posture Management addresses the complex challenge of maintaining compliance and security across multi-cloud environments by providing a unified platform for managing resources, flows, and settings. This tool leverages the CloudGuard Governance Specification Language (GSL) to define and enforce compliance rules, allowing organizations to check their cloud environments against industry standards and internal security policies.
The technical architecture of CloudGuard Posture Management relies on direct access to cloud environments through cloud platform APIs, enabling real-time monitoring and assessment of security posture. It supports multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes, without the need for software installation or agent management. The GSL language is intuitive and human-readable, allowing administrators to build and test custom rules without requiring development skills. For example, a simple GSL rule like |S3Bucket should have logging.enabled=true| ensures logging is enabled for AWS S3 buckets.
Operational considerations include the use of CloudBots for automated remediation of misconfigurations and policy violations. These bots can be configured to enforce specific rulesets and remediate issues across different cloud entities. The platform also provides detailed reports and notifications for non-compliant issues, along with an at-a-glance dashboard view of organizational compliance across all cloud assets.
Key technical details include the ability to manage over 70 cloud-native services with preconfigured rulesets for standards like PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and CIS Benchmarks. CloudGuard integrates with DevOps tools such as CloudFormation and Terraform, allowing for pre-deployment security posture evaluation. The system also includes advanced security intelligence features like cloud intrusion detection, network traffic visualization, and cloud security monitoring and analytics. However, the scalability of the solution can be limited by the complexity of the cloud environment, and retention costs for historical data can be significant in large-scale deployments.