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    Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

    Cloud Security Posture Management is the continuous discovery, assessment and remediation of misconfigurations and compliance violations across cloud environments. Evolvice operates CSPM tooling and remediation workflows across AWS, Azure and GCP accounts to close exposure gaps before they reach production incidents.

    • ISO 27001
    • NIS2
    • BSI-Grundschutz
    • GDPR

    Overview

    Technical Overview

    Cloud environments accumulate misconfigurations continuously as teams provision resources under delivery pressure, and most enterprises have no unified view of exposure across accounts, regions and providers. We deploy continuous posture scanning against a defined benchmark, prioritize findings by exploitability and business impact, and run a remediation workflow that closes gaps instead of just reporting them.

    What we put right

    • Publicly exposed storage buckets or databases discovered only after an external scan or incident
    • Hundreds of open findings in a security dashboard with no prioritization or ownership assigned
    • Inconsistent security baselines between AWS, Azure and GCP accounts managed by different teams
    • IAM roles with excessive permissions granted during initial setup and never reviewed since

    Diagnostic

    Common Failure Modes in Enterprise Cloud Security Posture

    Patterns we repeatedly find when taking over an existing multi-cloud environment.

    Symptom

    A storage bucket or snapshot is found publicly readable during an external audit

    Root cause
    No automated scanning for public-access misconfigurations at resource creation time
    Business risk
    Direct data exposure, potential GDPR reportable breach

    Symptom

    Security tooling reports 500+ open findings with no severity triage

    Root cause
    Findings are generated but never routed to an owning team with a remediation SLA
    Business risk
    Critical misconfigurations buried under low-severity noise

    Symptom

    The same class of misconfiguration reappears weeks after being fixed

    Root cause
    Remediation is manual and one-off, with no preventive guardrail in the provisioning pipeline
    Business risk
    Recurring exposure window, wasted remediation effort

    Symptom

    An IAM audit reveals dozens of roles with administrator-equivalent access

    Root cause
    Permissions granted broadly at initial account setup and never scoped down
    Business risk
    Large blast radius if any single credential is compromised

    Structure

    Posture management is continuous, not a point-in-time audit.

    The value of Cloud Security Posture Management is not producing a compliance report but maintaining an accurate, current picture of exposure as the environment changes hour by hour. A scan taken once a quarter is already outdated by the time it reaches a remediation team.

    We structure CSPM around continuous scanning against a defined benchmark, risk-based prioritization and a closed-loop remediation workflow with assigned ownership and tracked closure times.

    Definition

    Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

    Cloud Security Posture Management is a category of security tooling and practice that continuously identifies misconfigurations, policy violations and compliance gaps across cloud infrastructure, and drives their remediation to reduce the attack surface of cloud-hosted environments.

    Delivery model

    How We Operate Cloud Security Posture Management

    A repeatable five-step engagement we run for every cloud environment we take over.

    1. 1

      Multi-Account Discovery & Baseline

      Full inventory of AWS, Azure and GCP accounts and resources, scanned against a defined security benchmark (CIS or provider-native) within 5-10 working days.

    2. 2

      Risk-Based Prioritization

      Findings scored by exploitability, exposure and business impact, with critical and high-severity items routed to owning teams immediately.

    3. 3

      Remediation Workflow

      Assigned ownership, tracked SLAs and verified closure for each finding, distinguishing one-off fixes from recurring misconfiguration classes.

    4. 4

      Preventive Guardrails

      Policy-as-code checks embedded in the provisioning pipeline to block known misconfiguration patterns before they reach production.

    5. 5

      Continuous Monitoring & Reporting

      Ongoing scanning with monthly posture reporting covering open findings, mean time to remediation and drift against the security baseline.

    Compliance

    Compliance Mapping — Cloud Security Posture Management

    How our delivery model maps to the four reference frameworks German enterprises are audited against.

    Compliance Mapping — Cloud Security Posture Management
    ControlISO 27001NIS2BSI-GrundschutzGDPR
    Cloud Configuration SecurityA.8.9 / A.8.20Art. 21(2)(a)OPS.2.2Art. 32(1)(b)
    Vulnerability & Misconfiguration ManagementA.8.8Art. 21(2)(b)OPS.1.1.6Art. 32(1)(d)
    Identity & Access ManagementA.5.15 / A.8.5Art. 21(2)(i)ORP.4Art. 32(1)(a)
    Continuous Monitoring & LoggingA.8.16Art. 21(2)(b)DER.1Art. 33
    Breach Notification ReadinessA.5.24Art. 23DER.2.1Art. 33 / Art. 34

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    How it works

    Cloud Security Posture Management is the continuous process of identifying misconfigurations, policy violations and compliance gaps across cloud infrastructure and driving their remediation to reduce overall attack surface.

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