Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) is a top priority for cloud security decision makers. Yet Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM) has emerged as the most serious cloud infrastructure risk to address. Ermetic offers a unified and robust solution for both.
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) helps organizations determine that their cloud applications and services are securely configured. It offers a broad view of network, data storage and API settings. CSPM acquires configuration data from the cloud services in use and monitors the data continuously for risk. It can also analyze against compliance benchmarks to detect vulnerabilities, threats, and account hygiene violations.
Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) goes deeper, identifying all permissions across the stack to find, mitigate and pre-empt risk to identities and sensitive data. Gartner says mismanaged entitlements are the #1 source of cloud security failure – and a high priority to address.
CSPM and CIEM tackle cloud security risk from different angles:
CSPM focuses on compliance and best practices, including configuration of workloads, infrastructure and management – a broad view
CIEM solves security risks associated with risky entitlements across the cloud stack — a deep view, focused on identities
Ermetic does both. It integrates CIEM and CSPM to address two key elements of cloud security: the detection and visualizing of attack vectors in cloud configuration and access permissions, and full stack visibility into identity entitlements and resource settings to understand and manage cloud risk.
Security audits in the cloud are no trivial matter. By enabling us to jump through audit hoops, Ermetic proved itself a capable technology and time saver.
Etienne Smith, CTO, Kikapay
Why Identity-First Matters
Ermetic continuously assesses, detects and mitigates identity and compliance risk in your cloud infrastructure. The identity-first platform leverages unparalleled full stack insight and analysis across identities, entitlements and cloud configurations. Its deep, broad view delivers risk detection with low false positives, accurate prioritization and auto-remediation based on actual use to give you robust CSPM and leading CIEM in a single, unified multi-cloud solution.
Risk Detection for Resource Configurations & Entitlements
The Ermetic Platform combines a complete set of identity-first capabilities in one unified product. The result is 365-degree context for automating the detection and mitigation of your cloud security risks. For example, understanding if a sensitive data store is vulnerable to attack requires a holistic assessment of its access permissions, resource configuration and network configuration.
Ermetic can help you automate and centralize the detection and remediation of security risks associated with over privileged identities as well as misconfigurations that can expose cloud assets to data breaches.
If we didn’t have Ermetic analyzing roles, policies and network configuration, that would easily be an additional three to four analysts. It’s saving us hours and head count.
Organizations exposed to the SolarWinds breach must identify exposed credentials and rotate them asap.
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“We need to keep our CIS benchmarks green. Ermetic is giving more than a window into our cloud identities – it gives insight into misconfigurations that affect benchmarks.”
Larry Viviano, Director of Information Security, IntelyCare
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