Cloud security posture management tools help in the identification and remediation of risks across cloud infrastructures, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). These tools continuously assess the security posture across multi-cloud environments by maintaining a current inventory of the cloud assets for proactive analysis and risk assessment to detect any misconfigurations. Once these misconfigurations are identified, security controls are developed and implemented. CSPM solutions also integrate with DevOps tools, streamlining the incident response process and ensuring continuous compliance with regulatory requirements and security frameworks by providing visibility of the cloud environment’s security posture.
Gartner defines identity governance and administration (IGA) as the solution to manage the identity life cycle and govern access across on-premises and cloud environments. To accomplish this, IGA tools aggregate and correlate disparate identity and access rights data, and provide full capability controls over accounts and associated access.
Workload Identity Management represents a critical segment within the broader Identity and Access Management (IAM) market. These solutions manage and secure the identities that organizations assign to workloads (non-human machine entities), such as applications (including AI agents), services, containers, VMs which require authenticated access to target systems. Workload Identity Management solutions deliver visibility into workloads, their identities, accounts and credentials, access policies, and their usage. They help enforce least privilege access and actively monitor for anomalous or risky activity. By continuously discovering workload identities, organizations can accurately inventory and maintain compliance with company policies and standards, as well as securely manage their associated credentials and access policies. These solutions enable organizations to discover, inventory, monitor, manage, and administer workload identities and any associated accounts, credentials, and access policies. The typical users of these solutions include IAM teams, cloud security teams, DevOps, and platform engineering teams responsible for managing non-human identities.