CommunityDevOps ExchangePartners
Articles
2/3/2022
10 minutes

Top Cloud Security Tools For Cloud Native Infrastructures

Written by
Team Copado
Table of contents

The term “cloud native” gets thrown around a lot, but there tends to be some confusion over what it actually means. When you build a cloud native infrastructure, you can’t simply migrate your existing servers, applications, and workloads to the cloud and expect everything to work the same way. Instead, you design everything specifically for the cloud so you can take full advantage of the flexibility and scalability of cloud computing.

Therefore when you look at cloud security tools for cloud native infrastructures, you also need to focus on cloud-specific solutions. Trying to shoehorn your cloud ecosystem into your existing on-premises or colocation security solutions almost guarantees that you’ll leave critical gaps in your cloud security perimeter. With that in mind, here are some of the best cloud security tools designed to protect cloud native infrastructures.

Top Cloud Security Tools for Cloud Native Infrastructures

You might assume that cloud security tools are just cloud- or service-based versions of the same appliances and solutions you use to protect your on-premises network – things like firewalls and intrusion detection systems (IDS). While these network security staples are important for your cloud native infrastructure, there are additional cloud-specific tools that deliver these same features through innovative, cloud-focused solutions. 

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)

A cloud access security broker, or CASB, is essentially a software gatekeeper that sits between your on-premises infrastructure and your cloud infrastructure. A CASB allows you to extend your enterprise security policies to your cloud services, applications, data, and traffic and apply appropriate security controls.

CASBs work by automatically discovering and tracking your cloud applications, services, and users and identifying key risk factors. They then use a variety of features and methods to enforce your security policies and protect your cloud native infrastructure, including:

  • Firewalls to inspect the traffic flowing between your enterprise and the cloud and prevent viruses or other malware from infecting your network.
  • Data loss prevention (DLP) to prevent unauthorized access or transfer of sensitive information.
  • User behavior analytics to identify suspicious behavior on your infrastructure that might indicate a breach or attack.
  • Single sign-on (SSO) integration with identity and access management (IAM) tools so users can access cloud resources with the same account, permissions, and credentials they use on your enterprise network.

Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP)

A cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) is, as the name implies, a solution designed to protect cloud environments at the workload level. Instead of looking at the big picture – creating a large security perimeter around your entire cloud environment – CWPP shrinks its focus down to the individual workloads at risk and provides the security controls needed to protect them.

If you’ve heard of zero trust security, this concept may sound familiar to you. CWPP, like zero trust, relies on microsegmentation, which divides your cloud infrastructure into smaller network segments. This allows your CWPP cloud security tool to assess the vulnerabilities of each segment and apply the precise access policies and security controls that provide the best protection. 

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

Cloud security posture management (CSPM) is a cloud security tool that automatically identifies misconfigurations, security risks, and compliance issues with your cloud applications and APIs (application programming interfaces). A CSPM automatically monitors your cloud applications across multiple platforms, including your infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS) solutions.

Misconfigurations are one of the biggest threats to your cloud security. A CSPM enables you to automatically detect and remediate configuration issues so you can keep your cloud infrastructure safe. In addition, a CSPM can monitor for compliance with data privacy regulations and conformance with cloud security standards.

Some of the features provided by cloud security posture management tools include:

  • Continuous real-time monitoring
  • Automatic policy violation detection, notification, and remediation
  • Real-time cloud data risk analysis

The biggest benefit of a CSPM is that it applies these features to applications across your entire cloud infrastructure, including service-based and multi-cloud architectures. As an added bonus, CSPM tools can integrate with your CASB to provide a more comprehensive cloud security solution. 

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM)

Cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM), also known as cloud entitlements management (CEM) or cloud permissions management (CPM), is used to manage identities and privileges across cloud infrastructure. CIEM solutions use the principle of least privilege to limit the access privileges given to any individual account.

CIEM cloud security tools use machine learning and other analytics tools to assess account entitlements for security risks. For example, a CIEM might notice that a single account is accumulating too many privileges, something that commonly happens with a long-time sysadmin or a jack-of-all-trades service account but which allows too much lateral movement on your network. A CIEM can automatically detect these issues and remediate them by, for instance, splitting privileges across multiple accounts.

Protect Your Cloud Native Infrastructure with Innovative Cloud Security Tools

Your cloud native architecture requires new and innovative cloud security tools to ensure you can take advantage of the benefits of a cloud-based infrastructure without sacrificing security. For example, your DevOps teams need automated security and testing tools that integrate with SaaS, container orchestration, and other cloud platforms to provide complete security and compliance coverage. Copado’s Low-Code DevOps tool for SaaS applications works across your entire cloud infrastructure, giving you a centralized solution for managing development, testing, and security.

 

 

Book a demo

About The Author

#1 DevOps Platform for Salesforce

We build unstoppable teams by equipping DevOps professionals with the platform, tools and training they need to make release days obsolete. Work smarter, not longer.

Copado Launches Copado Explorer to Simplify and Streamline Testing on Salesforce
Exploring Top Cloud Automation Testing Tools
Master Salesforce DevOps with Copado Robotic Testing
Exploratory Testing vs. Automated Testing: Finding the Right Balance
A Guide to Salesforce Source Control
A Guide to DevOps Branching Strategies
Family Time vs. Mobile App Release Days: Can Test Automation Help Us Have Both?
How to Resolve Salesforce Merge Conflicts: A Guide
Copado Expands Beta Access to CopadoGPT for All Customers, Revolutionizing SaaS DevOps with AI
Is Mobile Test Automation Unnecessarily Hard? A Guide to Simplify Mobile Test Automation
From Silos to Streamlined Development: Tarun’s Tale of DevOps Success
Simplified Scaling: 10 Ways to Grow Your Salesforce Development Practice
What is Salesforce Incident Management?
What Is Automated Salesforce Testing? Choosing the Right Automation Tool for Salesforce
Copado Appoints Seasoned Sales Executive Bob Grewal to Chief Revenue Officer
Business Benefits of DevOps: A Guide
Copado Brings Generative AI to Its DevOps Platform to Improve Software Development for Enterprise SaaS
Celebrating 10 Years of Copado: A Decade of DevOps Evolution and Growth
Copado Celebrates 10 Years of DevOps for Enterprise SaaS Solutions
5 Reasons Why Copado = Less Divorces for Developers
What is DevOps? Build a Successful DevOps Ecosystem with Copado’s Best Practices
Scaling App Development While Meeting Security Standards
5 Data Deploy Features You Don’t Want to Miss
Top 5 Reasons I Choose Copado for Salesforce Development
How to Elevate Customer Experiences with Automated Testing
Getting Started With Value Stream Maps
Copado and nCino Partner to Provide Proven DevOps Tools for Financial Institutions
Unlocking Success with Copado: Mission-Critical Tools for Developers
How Automated Testing Enables DevOps Efficiency
How to Keep Salesforce Sandboxes in Sync
How to Switch from Manual to Automated Testing with Robotic Testing
Best Practices to Prevent Merge Conflicts with Copado 1 Platform
Software Bugs: The Three Causes of Programming Errors
How Does Copado Solve Release Readiness Roadblocks?
Why I Choose Copado Robotic Testing for my Test Automation
How to schedule a Function and Job Template in DevOps: A Step-by-Step Guide
Delivering Quality nCino Experiences with Automated Deployments and Testing
Best Practices Matter for Accelerated Salesforce Release Management
Maximize Your Code Quality, Security and performance with Copado Salesforce Code Analyzer
Upgrade Your Test Automation Game: The Benefits of Switching from Selenium to a More Advanced Platform
Three Takeaways From Copa Community Day
Cloud Native Applications: 5 Characteristics to Look for in the Right Tools
Using Salesforce nCino Architecture for Best Testing Results
How To Develop A Salesforce Testing Strategy For Your Enterprise
What Is Multi Cloud: Key Use Cases and Benefits for Enterprise Settings
5 Steps to Building a Salesforce Center of Excellence for Government Agencies
Salesforce UI testing: Benefits to Staying on Top of Updates
Benefits of UI Test Automation and Why You Should Care
Types of Salesforce Testing and When To Use Them
Copado + DataColada: Enabling CI/CD for Developers Across APAC
What is Salesforce API Testing and It Why Should Be Automated
Machine Learning Models: Adapting Data Patterns With Copado For AI Test Automation
Automated Testing Benefits: The Case For As Little Manual Testing As Possible
Beyond Selenium: Low Code Testing To Maximize Speed and Quality
UI Testing Best Practices: From Implementation to Automation
How Agile Test Automation Helps You Develop Better and Faster
Salesforce Test Cases: Knowing When to Test
DevOps Quality Assurance: Major Pitfalls and Challenges
11 Characteristics of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) That Set Them Apart
7 Key Compliance Regulations Relating to Data Storage
7 Ways Digital Transformation Consulting Revolutionizes Your Business
6 Top Cloud Security Trends
API Management Best Practices
Applying a Zero Trust Infrastructure in Kubernetes
Building a Data Pipeline Architecture Based on Best Practices Brings the Biggest Rewards
CI/CD Methodology vs. CI/CD Mentality: How to Meet Your Workflow Goals
DevOps to DevSecOps: How to Build Security into the Development Lifecycle
DevSecOps vs Agile: It’s Not Either/Or
How to Create a Digital Transformation Roadmap to Success
Infrastructure As Code: Overcome the Barriers to Effective Network Automation
Leveraging Compliance Automation Tools to Mitigate Risk
Moving Forward with These CI/CD Best Practices
Top 3 Data Compliance Challenges of Tomorrow and the Solutions You Need Today
Top 6 Cloud Security Management Policies and Procedures to Protect Your Business
What are the Benefits of Principle of Least Privilege (POLP) for My Organization?
You Can’t Measure What You Can’t See: Getting to know the 4 Metrics of Software Delivery Performance
How the Public Sector Can Continue to Accelerate Modernization
Building an Automated Test Framework to Streamline Deployments
How To Implement a Compliance Testing Methodology To Exceed Your Objectives
Cloud Security: Advantages and Disadvantages to Accessibility
Copado Collaborates with IBM to Accelerate Digital Transformation Projects on the Salesforce Platform
Continuous Quality: The missing link to DevOps maturity
Why Empowering Your Salesforce CoE is Essential for Maximizing ROI
Value Stream Management: The Future of DevOps at Scale is Here
Is Salesforce Development ‘One Size Fits All?’
The 3 Pillars of DevOps Value Stream Management
Gartner Recommends Companies Adopt Value Stream Delivery Platforms To Scale DevOps
The Admin's Quick Glossary for Understanding Salesforce DevOps
Top 10 Copado Features for #AwesomeAdmins
10 Secrets Management Tools to Facilitate Stronger Security Practices
5 Cloud Security Compliance Basics to Prevent Data Breaches
5 Data Security Management Fundamentals
Cloud Agnostic vs Cloud Native: Developing a Hybrid Approach
Making DIE Model Security vs. the CIA Security Triad Complementary, Not Competitive
The CI/CD Pipeline: Why Testing Is Required at Every Stage
DevSecOps Roadmap: From Architecture to Automation
Pets vs. Cattle: More Than an Analogy for Modern Infrastructures
Data Compliance Solutions Provide Greater Control Over Enterprise Data
Copado Cares: Free Training, Collaboration and Product Access for Global Response to COVID-19
12 Types of Social Engineering Attacks to Look Out For
Go back to resources
There is no previous posts
Go back to resources
There is no next posts
Ready to Transform Your Software Delivery Process?

Explore more about

No items found.