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Cloud Security is an umbrella term for protecting your cloud infrastructure against vulnerabilities, threats and unauthorized access. These security practices include identity and access management, the protection of data at rest and in transit, as well as continuous monitoring and incident response tools.

Managing the risk of cloud deployments requires unique solutions to ensure security and compliance across your entire IT landscape. These tools include cloud security posture management (CSPM) to consistently apply governance and compliance rules to your virtual servers, application firewalls for secure web applications, and vulnerability scanning for continuous threat detection. Using these tools will reduce your attack surface, help you identify and remediate vulnerabilities, and improve the performance of your cloud environment.

Identity and access management tools prevent unauthorized access to sensitive information by enforcing passwords, devices, and policies. These tools can also enforce multi-factor authentication for the most critical data and encrypt data to prevent a breach in the event of stolen credentials or malware.

Security should be built into every stage of development to ensure it scales with your workflows. This includes identifying risks directly in code with secret scanning and removing hardcoded credentials, analyzing open-source packages for vulnerabilities, validating infrastructure-as-code templates, and enabling guardrails to prevent misconfigurations and privilege creep. This is best done with a DevSecOps approach that supports your existing developer workflows through IDE plugins and CI/CD integrations to minimize disruption and deliver consistent security. Finally, an effective incident response plan outlines the steps to identify, contain, and recover from incidents.