Cloud infrastructure is subject to a wide range of international, federal, and local security regulations. Organizations must adhere to these regulations or face consequences.
Given the dynamic nature of cloud environments, maintaining consistent compliance with regulatory standards such as CIS, NIST, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 can be challenging, especially for highly regulated industries that use hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructures. Challenges vary by industry but often include cloud complexity, data residency, time-consuming audits, and keeping up with new regulations.
Read: “What is Cloud Compliance? A Beginner’s Guide for Security Professionals” Many organizations are unsure about their cloud compliance obligations – and who is responsible for them. Cloud security tools, such as Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection (CWP), can help organizations meet compliance standards while providing advanced protection against cyberattacks.
Monitoring your cloud deployments against compliance frameworks provides a basic level of controls and best practices. However, these deployments must also be accompanied by an advanced layer of protection. with Cloud breaches are rampantThis advanced protection is critical, as adversaries continue to evolve their technologies faster than compliance regulations are updated.
CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security covers the four main security compliance frameworks, including MITER ATT&CK®, CIS, NIS, and ISO, as well as industry-specific requirements, including GDPR and PCI-DSS for financial services and payments, and FedRAMP and FISMA for government, HIPAA and HITECH Healthcare.
With Falcon Cloud Security, you can identify risks and vulnerabilities, address misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, and enforce gold standard policies to meet industry regulations while securing your business in the cloud.
Here's the story of how one organization did it.
Going Beyond Compliance: Commercial Bank of California
As a bank designed for the speed and scale of modern business, Commercial Bank of California (CBC) manages a number of web applications and APIs hosted on AWS and Microsoft Azure. In addition to adhering to federal and state regulations, PCI and NACHA security standards, CBC implements CIS standards to harden its cloud environments.
Before adopting Falcon Cloud Security, CBC had to manually identify vulnerabilities and track the remediation process. Using CrowdStrike, the bank can automatically detect misconfigurations in near real-time and filter them out with MITER ATT&CK and compliance guidelines. Falcon Cloud Security also sorts by severity rating, allowing CBC to prioritize remediation based on risk.
“We care about our customers' data and the money they entrust us to hold. We needed a solution that could monitor and harden our multi-cloud environment so we could avoid any potential data loss or breach,” said Kevin Tsui, senior vice president of information security at CBC. Falcon Cloud Security has been a time saver for us and a valuable tool for strengthening our security posture.” CBC learned that it can easily deploy Falcon Cloud Security to protect its cloud environments using the same lightweight CrowdStrike Falcon® sensor it uses to protect endpoints and other attack surfaces. With Falcon Cloud Security, CBC can go beyond compliance to secure its business in the cloud.
“Falcon Cloud Security has helped us harden our cloud environments. Now we can quickly identify and fix cloud misconfigurations, secure our containers and protect our Linux servers in both AWS and Azure,” said Cui. “With CrowdStrike, we can remediate any cloud breach in less than 16 minutes, which puts our minds at ease.”
Cloud compliance made easier
Cloud compliance It starts with a strong, well-defined security posture that provides visibility and control with granular visibility into infrastructure and workflows. While all cloud security solutions assist with compliance to some extent, CrowdStrike provides end-to-end cloud detection and response, enabling a robust security posture and compliance specific to various industries and regulations.
CrowdStrike can help you achieve compliance for your cloud environment so you can focus on innovating your business. Falcon Cloud Security offers:
A unified view of compliance. Use the compliance dashboard, framework details, and drill-down capabilities for simple, consistent compliance auditing and reporting. Compliance management. Enforce compliance with industry regulations and security standards with automated compliance features and custom policies. Simplified reports. View and export results of assessments set against a standard or framework requirement. You can also export scheduled or on-demand reports on compliance status and non-compliant assets. Treatment. Get processing steps, alert logic, and MITRE ATT&CK information for each policy. Links to relevant compliance information are available for quick reference via the user interface.
Falcon Cloud Security Compliance Dashboard makes cloud compliance easier (click to enlarge)
CrowdStrike achieves 100% protection, 100% visibility, and 100% analytical detection coverage in… MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Reviews: Enterprise Tour 5. Our Cloud Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) capabilities provide pre-launch container image inspection and runtime protection – providing complete protection against cloud breaches. Watch this short video to see how Falcon Cloud Security makes it easier for organizations to enforce cloud compliance:
Delivered from CrowdStrike Falcon's original AI-driven platform
A robust cloud security solution helps you enforce compliance across all of your security operations, while also providing a unified approach to threat prevention, visibility, and security posture management to stop breaches.
While some cloud security vendors offer pieces of security, compliance, and policy management, CrowdStrike goes further to offer unified security and compliance across the entire infrastructure, from on-premises to the cloud, in a single console and interface as part of the original CrowdStrike Falcon platform Based on artificial intelligence.
The result is an industry-leading cloud security solution that allows organizations to enforce cloud compliance while providing the strongest protection against breaches.
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