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Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) Review

Reviews a CSPM program covering cloud asset discovery, misconfiguration detection, policy-as-code guardrails, drift, and remediation across multi-cloud environments.

CISNIST 800-53CSA CCM

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Coverage & Discovery

  • Are all cloud accounts, subscriptions, and projects onboarded into the CSPM tool? *
  • Is asset discovery continuous so new resources are detected automatically? *
  • Are all in-scope cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) covered by the CSPM platform? *
  • Is CSPM integrated with the cloud provider audit logs (CloudTrail, Activity Log, Cloud Audit Logs)? *

Misconfiguration Detection

  • Are findings benchmarked against CIS Foundations Benchmarks for each cloud provider? *
  • Are public exposure risks (open storage buckets, public IPs, 0.0.0.0/0 rules) flagged as high severity? *
  • Are encryption-at-rest and in-transit gaps detected across storage and databases? *
  • Are overly permissive IAM roles and unused credentials identified? *

Guardrails & Prevention

  • Are preventive guardrails (SCPs, Azure Policy, Org Policy) enforced to block risky configurations? *
  • Is policy-as-code used so guardrails are version-controlled and peer-reviewed?
  • Is configuration drift from an approved baseline detected and alerted? *

Remediation & Reporting

  • Are findings assigned severity, an owner, and a remediation SLA? *
  • Are auto-remediation workflows available for high-confidence, low-risk findings?
  • Is posture score trended over time and reported to leadership?
  • What percentage of critical findings are remediated within SLA?

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