The world of cybersecurity is constantly innovating on ways to improve cyber defenses that mitigate the risks of cyber vulnerabilities and threats. These innovations helps to secure modern computing environments.
The emerging cybersecurity defenses are as follows.
SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM)
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) security posture management is an automated tool for identifying security risks in SaaS applications (e.g. Salesforce, Slack, Office 365 etc). The tool identifies misconfigurations, unnecessary user accounts, excessive user permissions, compliance risks, and other cloud security issues.
SSPM is configured to put SaaS applications in a state where they are ready to mitigate attacks. SSPM tools automatically detect security risks and eliminate the threat posed by manual errors in setup.
Cloud-native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
CNAPP is a security and compliance solution that help teams build, deploy, and run secure cloud native applications. It simplifies monitoring detecting and remediating potential cloud security threats and vulnerabilities.
CNAPP is configured to safeguard cloud-based applications and infrastructures, providing centralized controls, threat detection, and incident response capabilities.
Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM)
CIEM is a type of automated cloud security solution that mitigates the risk of data breaches in public environments. CIEM prevents excessive entitlements by continuously monitoring the permissions and activity of entities to ensure they are operating within appropriate access controls.
CIEM’s purpose is to be used as tool to understand which access entitlements exist across cloud and multicloud environments, and then identify and mitigate risks resulting from entitlements that grant a higher level of access than they should.
Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)
ITDR is a system that is designed to protect user identities and identity-based systems from cyber attacks. ITDR system is a combination of tools, behavior analysis, structured processes, and best practices to effectively prepare, detect and respond to identity-related threats.
ITDR employs detection mechanisms to identify potential threats, examine any suspicious activity during and after the authentication and authorization process, and implementing the appropriate countermeasures to safeguard the identity infrastructure.
Passwordless Authentication
This is an authentication method that allows a user to gain access to an application or IT system without entering a password or answering security questions. Instead, the user provides some other form of evidence such as fingerprint, proximity badge, facial recognitions, or a hardware token.
These cybersecurity defense innovations are not just emerging, they are already in use in some organizations. Other organizations can implement these tools and systems to improve the cybersecurity.
