☁️ Cloud Security Tools — Essential Toolkit for Modern Teams 🛡️🚀
Cloud environments introduce new risks and require specialized tooling to secure workloads, configurations, and data. Use a mix of CSP-native and third-party tools to cover posture management, runtime protection, identity, and visibility. Key categories and examples: Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) — Prisma Cloud, Dome9, Wiz for misconfig & compliance checks 🔍; Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP) — CrowdStrike, Trend Micro, Aqua for container and VM runtime defense 🐳🛡️; Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) — Netskope, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps for SaaS visibility & data control ☁️🔐; Identity & Access Management — AWS IAM/Azure AD hardening, BeyondTrust, Okta for strong auth & least privilege 🔑; Threat Detection & SIEM — Splunk, Sumo Logic, Datadog + cloud-native logging for alerting and forensics 📊; Vulnerability & Configuration Scanning — Qualys, Tenable, Trivy for images and infra-as-code scanning ⚙️; Secrets Management — HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager for safe key handling 🔐; and Supply-chain & CI/CD security — Snyk, Checkov, GitHub Advanced Security to catch insecure deps and pipelines 🧩.
⚠️ Disclaimer:
For educational & defensive use only. Evaluate tools against your cloud provider, compliance needs, and threat model before deploying. Always test changes in staging before production. 🚫🔒
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