The Cloud Visibility Playbook: 10 Practices to Secure Cloud Environments

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After reading this playbook, you’ll be able to:

  • Achieve continuous, agent-less visibility across every cloud resource and data flow.

  • Prioritize and remediate misconfigurations and vulnerabilities with context-rich insights.

  • Build a repeatable workflow for monitoring, compliance reporting, and incident response.

Key Takeaways
  • Visibility is the foundation of cloud security You can’t harden or prove compliance without a real-time, complete inventory.
  • Context beats raw alerts Correlating identities, configs, and data paths shows which risks form true attack paths.
  • Automation sustains coverage Centralized logging, Config rules, and graph-driven workflows keep pace with cloud change.

Is this guide for me?

This playbook is designed for:

  • Cloud security and DevOps engineers who need a single source of truth for multi-cloud assets.

  • Architects standardizing governance across rapidly growing accounts and regions.

  • GRC teams mapping cloud activity to frameworks like CIS, ISO 27001, and NIST.

What’s included?

  • Inventory & discovery framework — step-by-step guidance for agent-less resource tracking.

  • Centralized monitoring blueprint — unify logs, metrics, and alerts into a single pane of glass.

  • Configuration & vulnerability oversight— policy checks and contextual risk prioritization workflows.

  • Security-graph methodology — visualize relationships to uncover real attack paths and automate fixes.

  • Real-time threat response checklist — drills, alerting patterns, and incident-handling playbooks tailored for cloud.

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