Configure multi-account cloud posture scanning across major public cloud platforms using native and third-party CSPM tools.
Information & Communications Technology
Cloud Security Posture Management and Misconfiguration Remediation
Build a continuous cloud security posture management programme: map accounts to benchmarks, score misconfigurations by exploitability, and route fixes through automated remediation pipelines.
🗓️Duration5 training days
📚Content4 modules · 8 sessions
🎓On completionAccredited attendance certificate
About the programme
Course Overview
Cloud breaches rarely start with a novel exploit; they start with an open storage bucket, an overly permissive identity role, or a security group left wide open during a rushed deployment. This course teaches you to run a cloud security posture management practice that finds those gaps before attackers do. You will map multi-account estates against CIS Benchmarks and provider-native controls, score findings by exploitability and business impact rather than raw count, and design remediation paths that range from automated policy enforcement to ticketed manual fixes for exceptions. Sessions combine walkthroughs of native cloud security consoles from the major public cloud providers with exercises that trace a misconfiguration from detection through root-cause analysis to a guardrail that prevents recurrence. By the end you can stand up a scanning cadence, define severity thresholds that avoid alert fatigue, and report drift trends to engineering leadership in terms they can act on.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Score misconfiguration findings by exploitability, blast radius and data sensitivity rather than raw severity counts.
Design automated remediation workflows that quarantine or correct common issues without disrupting production workloads.
Write infrastructure as code guardrails that block non-compliant resources at the pipeline stage rather than after deployment.
Build exception-handling processes for findings that cannot be auto-remediated within agreed service levels.
Track configuration drift over time and present trend data that justifies engineering investment to leadership.
Map cloud posture findings to CIS Benchmarks and relevant compliance frameworks for audit evidence.
Who Should Attend
Cloud security engineers responsible for multi-account public cloud estates
DevSecOps practitioners embedding security checks into deployment pipelines
Security operations analysts triaging cloud misconfiguration alerts
IT risk and compliance staff needing audit-ready cloud control evidence
Platform engineers who own landing zones and shared cloud infrastructure
IT managers scoping or evaluating a CSPM tool procurement
Course Modules
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01Establishing Visibility Across Cloud Accounts
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Asset and Account Discovery at Scale
- Inventory active accounts, subscriptions and projects across major public cloud platforms using organisation-level APIs.
- Identify shadow resources created outside approved provisioning workflows and bring them under central visibility.
- Tag resources by owner, environment and data classification to support later risk scoring.
- Reconcile discovered assets against the configuration management database to close visibility gaps.
Session 2Mapping Controls to Benchmarks and Frameworks
- Translate CIS Benchmarks for the major public cloud platforms into checks a scanning tool can evaluate automatically.
- Align posture checks with NIST CSF 2.0 categories to support broader enterprise risk reporting.
- Select whether a provider-native security service or a third-party CSPM platform fits each environment.
- Define a baseline configuration standard for common resource types before scanning begins.
02Detecting and Prioritising Misconfigurations
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Running Continuous Posture Scans
- Schedule scanning cadences that balance detection speed against API rate limits and cost.
- Distinguish genuine misconfigurations from accepted-risk exceptions already documented in the risk register.
- Correlate identity and access findings with network exposure to reveal compound risks a single scan misses.
- Validate scanner findings manually on a sample basis to control for false positives before they reach engineering queues.
Session 2Scoring and Triaging Findings
- Score each finding by exploitability, data sensitivity and blast radius rather than the scanner's default severity label.
- Group related findings into a single remediation ticket to reduce duplicate engineering effort.
- Set service level targets for critical, high and medium findings that match the organisation's risk appetite.
- Build a dashboard that shows open findings by team, environment and age to drive accountability.
03Automating Remediation
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Auto-Remediation Pipelines
- Design remediation playbooks that quarantine public storage buckets or overly permissive security groups automatically.
- Integrate CSPM findings with a SOAR platform to trigger corrective actions without manual intervention for low-risk cases.
- Test auto-remediation actions in a staging account before enabling them against production workloads.
- Build rollback procedures for cases where automated remediation breaks a legitimate business function.
Session 2Shifting Remediation Left with Guardrails
- Write policy-as-code rules using an open-source policy engine to block non-compliant infrastructure at the pull request stage.
- Embed posture checks into continuous integration pipelines so misconfigurations fail the build rather than reach production.
- Provide developers with self-service compliant templates that reduce the volume of findings generated at source.
- Negotiate exception processes with engineering teams for cases where a guardrail conflicts with a genuine business need.
04Governing and Reporting the Programme
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Tracking Drift and Trends
- Measure configuration drift over time to show whether the estate is converging on or diverging from the baseline standard.
- Distinguish recurring misconfiguration patterns that point to a training gap from one-off human error.
- Feed posture metrics into quarterly risk reviews alongside vulnerability management and incident data.
- Benchmark the organisation's mean time to remediate against prior quarters to demonstrate programme maturity.
Session 2Reporting to Leadership and Auditors
- Translate technical findings into business-risk language that non-technical executives can act on.
- Prepare audit-ready evidence packages that map posture controls to relevant compliance frameworks.
- Present a roadmap for closing systemic gaps, including tooling, staffing and process changes.
- Recommend governance changes, such as mandatory tagging or account guardrails, that reduce future misconfiguration volume.
What the participant receives
4 course modules
A structured syllabus
8 training sessions
across 5 days
32 detailed points
Applied, detailed content
Accredited attendance certificate
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