Eliminate Cloud Misconfigurations Before They Become Breaches
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) continuously monitors cloud environments for misconfigurations, compliance violations, and security risks — catching the open S3 buckets, overly permissive IAM roles, and publicly exposed databases that are the root cause of the majority of cloud-based breaches.
What RLM Delivers on Cloud Security Posture Management
Cloud misconfiguration is the leading cause of cloud security incidents. CSPM provides the continuous visibility that manual reviews and periodic audits can't maintain across dynamic, multi-cloud environments with thousands of resources. RLM advises on CSPM platform selection and the remediation workflow that turns findings into fixes.
How We Approach Cloud Security Posture Management
A structured path through the Cloud Security Posture Management decision — current-state discovery, shortlist and benchmark, commercial negotiation, then support until it is actually working.
Cloud Environment Security Assessment
We assess your current cloud security posture — active cloud accounts across AWS, Azure, and GCP, current misconfiguration density, IAM permission sprawl, and the compliance gaps against CIS Benchmarks and applicable regulatory frameworks.
CSPM Platform Evaluation
We evaluate CSPM platforms — Wiz, Orca Security, Lacework, Prisma Cloud, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and AWS Security Hub — against your cloud provider mix, integration requirements, and the remediation workflow quality that determines fix rates.
Risk Prioritization Framework
CSPM tools generate large volumes of findings. We design the risk prioritization framework — combining misconfiguration severity, asset criticality, internet exposure, and real-world exploit data — that focuses remediation effort on the findings that matter most.
Remediation & Developer Integration
CSPM findings must reach the teams responsible for fixing them. We design the remediation workflow — ITSM integration, developer-facing notifications, and the infrastructure-as-code scanning that prevents misconfigurations from being deployed.
Cloud Security Posture Management Evaluation Criteria
Before committing to any Cloud Security Posture Management platform, these are the points worth forcing a straight answer on.
Multi-Cloud Coverage
Each cloud provider has a different security model and misconfiguration taxonomy. Evaluate CSPM coverage breadth across AWS, Azure, and GCP — particularly for newer services and container/serverless workloads.
Context-Aware Risk Scoring
Not all misconfigurations are equal — an S3 bucket with sensitive data exposed to the internet is far more critical than the same misconfiguration on an empty development bucket. Evaluate context-aware risk scoring that incorporates data sensitivity and internet exposure.
Attack Path Analysis
Individual misconfigurations may be low-risk; combinations create exploitable attack paths. Evaluate attack path analysis capabilities that identify how multiple misconfigurations chain together to create breach scenarios.
Agentless vs. Agent-Based
Agentless CSPM provides broad coverage without deployment overhead; agent-based approaches provide deeper visibility into workload behavior. Evaluate the trade-off based on your coverage breadth vs. depth requirements.
Compliance Framework Coverage
CSPM must map findings to your specific compliance frameworks. Evaluate the pre-built framework mappings — CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS — and the custom framework support for internal policies.
Developer Experience
CSPM findings must be actionable by developers, not just security teams. Evaluate the developer-facing features — pull request scanning, IDE integrations, and remediation guidance quality — that shift-left cloud security.
"RLM helped us build a security program that satisfied our board and our auditors — without locking us into a single vendor's roadmap. Their independence is the whole point."
Every engagement is measured against the baseline we establish at the start — not against a vendor’s projection.
Where This Matters Most
Sector-specific considerations we see repeatedly in security engagements.
A Sample of the Security Providers We Evaluate
RLM is vendor neutral. These are among 600+ providers in our evaluation set — inclusion here is not an endorsement, and we are paid by the provider you choose, not by any provider in particular. How that works →
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