Frost Radar^™: Cloud Security Posture Management, 2024

Companies increasingly seek to reduce complexity by consolidating multiple security tools into a single platform to simplify security management and enhance the ability to respond to threats across disparate environments more effectively. 

Modern CSPM solutions must offer more than periodic assessments and provide continuous monitoring and real-time threat detection to enable organizations to respond immediately to threats and misconfigurations, thereby reducing potential security risks. This can be done by integrating with AI/ML, which can help prioritize security issues and risks effectively, providing actionable insights for risk reduction and remediation. 

Selecting a CSPM can be difficult for organizations because vital factors influence decision-making, including solution capabilities, stability, scalability, management, and ROIs. Choosing the right CSPM must align with the organization’s security needs, operational efficiency, compliance requirements, and budget.

Organizations need to balance and consider the true values the platform can deliver with extensive consideration of technical and business aspects, prioritizing real-time detection, forensic visibility, innovation, competitive advantage, operational stability, security performance, compliance, and costs.