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Cloud security fundamentals part 5: Measure what matters

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Date Published
Author
Drew Wright
Word Count
908
Company Posts That Month
39
Language
English
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Summary

Cloud security teams can reduce reactive, emergency-driven remediation by adopting proactive operational processes that measure and improve security performance. Useful measurements include misconfiguration rates, vulnerability detection and prevention, mean time to remediation, tool effectiveness, automation progress, and the allocation of engineering time, with goals tailored to each organization’s environment and risks. Three central questions can guide these efforts: how secure the organization is, how productive its teams are, and what return it receives from security investments. Achieving meaningful measurement requires comprehensive visibility into cloud resources, configurations, code, development workflows, and toolchains, as well as close collaboration among security, cloud engineering, and development teams through DevSecOps practices. By establishing baselines, setting improvement targets, and making security conditions tangible through metrics, organizations can strengthen operational resilience, reduce the likelihood of breaches, and support more efficient use of technical resources.

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