Implementing Cloud Security Posture Management

When to Use

• When establishing continuous security monitoring across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments
• When compliance requirements demand automated posture assessment against CIS, SOC 2, or PCI DSS
• When security teams need visibility into cloud misconfigurations across multiple accounts and subscriptions
• When building a security operations workflow that detects and remediates drift from security baselines
• When migrating workloads to the cloud and need to enforce security guardrails

Do not use for runtime workload protection (use CWPP tools like Falco or Aqua), for application security testing (use DAST/SAST tools), or for network intrusion detection (use cloud-native IDS like GuardDuty or Network Watcher).

Prerequisites

• Multi-cloud credentials with read-only security audit permissions across all target environments
• Prowler v3+ installed (pip install prowler)
• ScoutSuite installed (pip install scoutsuite)
• AWS Config, Azure Policy, and GCP Organization Policy enabled in respective environments
• Central logging destination (S3 bucket, Log Analytics Workspace, or Cloud Storage) for findings aggregation