Findings without a subject
A misconfiguration without workload, application or repository context can be harder to route to the team responsible.
Cloud posture.
With the full context.
Find cloud misconfigurations and connect them to identities, resources and running workloads. Bring cloud security posture management (CSPM) into the same investigation as application risk.
Cloud resource review
Account boundary
Resource configuration
Network exposure
Investigation context
01 / Collect
Read the configuration in context.
- Cloud account
- Resource identifier
Keep account and resource identity with the posture result.
02 / Assess
See which setting created the finding.
- Configuration check
- Exposure context
Review exposure and configuration evidence before deciding how to respond.
03 / Resolve
Return to the resource with a clear action.
- Change owner
- Check history
Coordinate the change and verify that the configuration no longer triggers the check.
AWS · Azure · GCP
Cloud providers
Agentless collectors.
CIEM
Identity edges
Who assumes what, and what it can reach.
K8s
Cluster sensor
Inventory, topology and admission.
SLA
Posture SLAs
Deadlines and escalation for drift and ageing findings.
The problem
Why do CSPM dashboards get ignored?
A public bucket is a finding. A public bucket that a workload running a vulnerable image can write to, through a role anyone can assume, may form part of an attack path. Investigating that path requires configuration, workload and identity context together.
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Snapshots, not change
Posture is reported as a list at collection time; what changed since yesterday is a diff nobody runs.
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Identity in a separate tool
Who can reach the bucket is answered by a separate entitlement tool that does not know about the CVE.
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Kubernetes as a black box
Cluster findings stop at the namespace; nobody knows which image digest is actually running.
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Frameworks bolted on
Compliance mapping is a report generated from the same list, one framework at a time.
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Agents before answers
Runtime visibility requires an agent fleet before the first result.
How SecurityVault does it
How does SecurityVault turn posture into attack paths?
By adding cloud edges to the same entities that already hold your code and image findings: one graph from commit to image to cloud resource, correlated as each scan lands.
Collect
Agentless collectors for AWS, Azure and GCP register accounts, resources, principals, roles and policies as graph entities, linked by where each resource is hosted, which roles can be assumed and what each role can access.
Check
Native checks and benchmark rules produce misconfiguration findings on the affected resource, and drift detection reports what changed, not just the current state.
Bind
The Kubernetes sensor and registry watchers bind workloads to image digests and digests back to the build that produced them, so a container CVE, a cluster misconfiguration and the repository line that introduced the vulnerable dependency meet on the same workload.
Path
Attack paths start at exposure and traverse identities, roles and data stores. Chokepoints and interventions are ranked, and an empty result says why.
Age
Remediation SLAs give posture findings deadlines by severity, and breaches are recorded and can notify through Slack or PagerDuty. See remediation SLAs.
Map
The same findings satisfy or violate controls across 6 seeded framework catalogues, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS v4 and CIS Controls, through the cross-walk.
Outcomes
What do cloud and security teams get?
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A short list that matters
Misconfigurations ranked by the paths they open, not by the count of failed checks.
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Ownership context
The workload, image and repository behind a resource route the finding to the team that can fix it.
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The fix that breaks the most paths
Chokepoints show which single role, rule or exposure to remove first.
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Every resource in context
Each account, resource and principal has its own 360 view of findings, identities and workloads.
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Outside-in and inside-out
Attack surface management shows what the internet sees; posture shows how the cloud behind it is configured.
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Your deployment choice
Hosted, or fully self-hosted on request. Sensors run in your environment either way.
FAQ
Cloud posture questions
- What is cloud security posture management (CSPM)?
- CSPM continuously checks cloud accounts against security benchmarks and policy to find misconfigurations such as public storage, open security groups and over-broad roles. SecurityVault goes further by joining each misconfiguration to the workloads, images, identities and code behind it, so it can be ranked as part of an attack path. See the CSPM glossary entry.
- How is CSPM different from CNAPP and ASPM?
- CSPM checks cloud configuration. A CNAPP bundles CSPM with workload protection, identity entitlements and usually runtime detection. ASPM starts from code and the pipeline. SecurityVault is ASPM-centred with CSPM on the same graph; it is not a CNAPP. Read ASPM vs CNAPP vs CSPM: what each covers and when to buy.
- Which clouds does SecurityVault support?
- AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, through agentless collectors that register accounts, resources, principals, roles and policies. Kubernetes clusters on any of them connect through the cluster sensor.
- Does SecurityVault need an agent in my cloud accounts?
- No. Cloud collection is agentless and uses read access you grant through least-privilege roles you control. The cluster sensor is optional and adds the live image-to-workload binding for Kubernetes.
- How is an attack path different from a misconfiguration?
- A misconfiguration is one fact about one resource. An attack path chains facts: an internet exposure, a workload running a vulnerable image, an identity it can assume and a data store that identity can reach. SecurityVault ranks the chokepoint whose removal breaks the most paths. Read cloud attack paths: chaining posture, workload and identity.
- How does CSPM evidence reach our compliance programme?
- The same findings satisfy or violate controls across 6 seeded framework catalogues through the cross-walk, so cloud posture becomes continuous evidence for your SOC 2, ISO 27001 or PCI DSS preparation. See continuous compliance.
Related: cloud identity and entitlements (CIEM) · Kubernetes security (KSPM) · IaC security · Cloud identity entitlements · SecurityVault for security engineering.
From the blog
Further reading on cloud posture
- Kubernetes service accounts: audit workload accessAudit Kubernetes service accounts by tracing token mounts, effective permissions and workload ownership, then verify that access changes work.
- Kubernetes NetworkPolicy: test workload isolationVerify Kubernetes NetworkPolicy with an explicit traffic matrix, allowed and denied probes, and evidence that distinguishes policy from network failure.
- Open-source CSPM tools: Prowler, ScoutSuite and beyondAn honest guide to open-source CSPM tools: what Prowler, ScoutSuite, Cloud Custodian, Steampipe and Trivy each do, and where a correlation layer fits.
- Cloud attack paths: chaining posture, workload and identityLearn how cloud attack paths chain posture, workload and identity findings into one route, so you can close the link that matters first.
See it on your stack
Connect one account and one cluster.
Watch a bucket finding become an attack path with a workload, an image digest and a commit on it.