CISA and NSA Outline 10 Strategies for Securing Cloud Environments
Summary
CISA and the NSA released ten cloud-security strategies covering shared responsibility, identity and key management, network security, data protection, CI/CD, cloud deployment, hybrid and multi-cloud risks, service providers, and logging.
Key points
- The guidance says organizations should understand the cloud shared-responsibility model and not assume providers manage security controls that remain the customer's responsibility.
- The strategies cover identity and access management, key management, network segmentation and encryption, and securing cloud data.
- Other priorities include defending CI/CD environments and using secure infrastructure-as-code deployment practices.
- The guidance addresses hybrid and multi-cloud complexity, managed-service-provider risks, and cloud logging for threat hunting.
- The article recommends pairing implementation with internal communication, governance, continuous visibility, and monitoring.
Article Details
- Event Type
- Government cloud security guidance
- Impact
- CISA and the NSA published ten strategies for strengthening cloud security, covering shared responsibility, identity and access management, key management, network segmentation and encryption, data protection, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, hybrid and multi-cloud environments, managed service providers, and cloud logging. The guidance highlights misconfiguration and inadequate security controls as significant cloud risks.