Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) continuously monitors cloud environments for misconfigurations, compliance violations, and security risks — catching the open S3 buckets, overly permissive IAM roles, and publicly exposed databases that are the root cause of the majority of cloud-based breaches.
Cloud misconfiguration is the leading cause of cloud security incidents. CSPM provides the continuous visibility that manual reviews and periodic audits can't maintain across dynamic, multi-cloud environments with thousands of resources. RLM advises on CSPM platform selection and the remediation workflow that turns findings into fixes.
A structured advisory process — from security posture assessment and market evaluation to vendor selection, contract negotiation, and post-deployment validation — tailored to your risk profile and compliance obligations.
We assess your current cloud security posture — active cloud accounts across AWS, Azure, and GCP, current misconfiguration density, IAM permission sprawl, and the compliance gaps against CIS Benchmarks and applicable regulatory frameworks.
We evaluate CSPM platforms — Wiz, Orca Security, Lacework, Prisma Cloud, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and AWS Security Hub — against your cloud provider mix, integration requirements, and the remediation workflow quality that determines fix rates.
CSPM tools generate large volumes of findings. We design the risk prioritization framework — combining misconfiguration severity, asset criticality, internet exposure, and real-world exploit data — that focuses remediation effort on the findings that matter most.
CSPM findings must reach the teams responsible for fixing them. We design the remediation workflow — ITSM integration, developer-facing notifications, and the infrastructure-as-code scanning that prevents misconfigurations from being deployed.
These are the dimensions that consistently separate effective security programs from expensive ones — and the questions RLM will help you answer before any vendor commitment.
Each cloud provider has a different security model and misconfiguration taxonomy. Evaluate CSPM coverage breadth across AWS, Azure, and GCP — particularly for newer services and container/serverless workloads.
Not all misconfigurations are equal — an S3 bucket with sensitive data exposed to the internet is far more critical than the same misconfiguration on an empty development bucket. Evaluate context-aware risk scoring that incorporates data sensitivity and internet exposure.
Individual misconfigurations may be low-risk; combinations create exploitable attack paths. Evaluate attack path analysis capabilities that identify how multiple misconfigurations chain together to create breach scenarios.
Agentless CSPM provides broad coverage without deployment overhead; agent-based approaches provide deeper visibility into workload behavior. Evaluate the trade-off based on your coverage breadth vs. depth requirements.
CSPM must map findings to your specific compliance frameworks. Evaluate the pre-built framework mappings — CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS — and the custom framework support for internal policies.
CSPM findings must be actionable by developers, not just security teams. Evaluate the developer-facing features — pull request scanning, IDE integrations, and remediation guidance quality — that shift-left cloud security.
"RLM helped us build a security program that satisfied our board and our auditors — without locking us into a single vendor's roadmap. Their independence is the whole point."
"We had three overlapping security tools doing the same job. RLM helped us rationalize the stack, cut spend by 30%, and actually improve our detection coverage in the process."
Start with a no-cost conversation with an RLM security advisor — vendor neutral, no agenda, just clarity on where your gaps are and the right path to close them.
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