Cloud strategy is a top priority for nearly every organization today. The shift to the cloud has created tremendous opportunities, but also introduced new risks that must be managed. Many leaders who raced to adopt the cloud now want to know what it will take to be as secure in their cloud deployments as they are on-premises.
Much of achieving the goal relies on two industry categories for cloud security technologies. Analyst firm Gartner refers to them as Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP).