Enterprise - Cloud Security Posture Management & CSPM

Overview

A Fortune 500 enterprise with complex multi-cloud infrastructure spanning AWS, Azure, and GCP struggled with security blind spots, manual compliance checking, fragmented security tools, and inconsistent policy enforcement across 2,000+ cloud workloads, resulting in critical security misconfigurations, failed compliance audits, and increased breach risk.

Key Challenges

• Security blind spots across multi-cloud infrastructure with no unified visibility into security posture

• Critical security misconfigurations discovered only during security incidents or compliance audits

• Manual compliance checking against CIS Benchmarks, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2 taking weeks with high error rates

• Fragmented security tools: 12+ point solutions each covering partial security domains creating alert fatigue

• Inconsistent security policy enforcement across AWS, Azure, and GCP with configuration drift

• Vulnerability management overwhelmed with thousands of findings lacking prioritization based on exploitability and business impact

• Failed SOC 2 Type II and PCI-DSS audit findings requiring extensive remediation

• No automated remediation workflows requiring manual security team intervention for every issue

• Lack of security context: unable to understand blast radius and lateral movement paths for potential breaches

• Developer friction: security controls blocking deployments without clear guidance on secure alternatives

Our Approach

• 1

  Implemented Databricks-powered unified CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management) platform aggregating security data across all cloud providers

• 2

  Built real-time cloud asset inventory with automated discovery of compute, storage, network, identity, and data resources

• 3

  Deployed automated compliance engines continuously validating against CIS Benchmarks, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, NIST frameworks

• 4

  Created graph-based security analytics modeling cloud infrastructure relationships for blast radius analysis

• 5

  Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security scanning validating Terraform, CloudFormation, and ARM templates pre-deployment

• 6

  Built vulnerability prioritization engine combining CVE scoring, exploitability, internet exposure, and business criticality

• 7

  Established policy-as-code framework with centralized security policies enforced consistently across all cloud environments

• 8

  Created automated remediation workflows with self-healing infrastructure for common security misconfigurations

• 9

  Integrated with ticketing systems (Jira, ServiceNow) for security finding assignment and tracking

• 10

  Developed security dashboards with real-time security posture scoring and executive reporting

• 11

  Implemented DevSecOps integration with CI/CD pipelines for shift-left security and developer feedback

Key Outcomes

• Reduced critical and high-severity security misconfigurations by 94% through continuous monitoring and automated remediation

• Achieved 100% compliance audit pass rate for SOC 2 Type II, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA with continuous compliance validation

• Accelerated vulnerability remediation by 81% (from average 45 days to 8 days) through intelligent prioritization

• Established unified real-time security posture visibility across 2,000+ cloud workloads spanning AWS, Azure, and GCP

• Reduced security tool sprawl consolidating 12 point solutions into single unified CSPM platform

• Decreased security alerts by 76% through intelligent deduplication and correlation eliminating alert fatigue

• Prevented 127 critical security incidents through proactive detection of internet-exposed databases, open S3 buckets, and weak IAM policies

• Improved Mean Time to Remediation (MTTR) by 73% with automated remediation workflows

• Reduced cloud infrastructure costs by $420K annually by identifying and removing unused resources with security risks

• Accelerated developer deployment velocity by 34% with clear security guardrails and automated policy validation

• Achieved comprehensive audit trail with all security configuration changes tracked and attributed