What platform provides continuous compliance and governance assessments that evaluate public infrastructure according to industry to industry standards and best practices?

Question

Options

• ACloud Security Posture Management
• BCloudGuard laaS Public Cloud
• CCloudGuard SaaS
• DCloudGuard laaS Private Cloud

• A
  90% (28)
• B
  6% (2)
• C
  3% (1)

Explanation

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) is purpose-built to continuously monitor and evaluate cloud infrastructure against industry compliance frameworks (CIS, NIST, PCI-DSS, etc.), automatically flagging misconfigurations and governance violations - making it the correct answer.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B. CloudGuard IaaS Public Cloud secures workloads and network traffic in public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) but focuses on threat prevention, not compliance posture assessments.
• C. CloudGuard SaaS protects SaaS applications like Office 365 and Salesforce - a completely different scope (apps, not infrastructure).
• D. CloudGuard IaaS Private Cloud targets private/on-premises data center environments, so "public infrastructure" immediately rules it out.

Memory tip: Lock in the acronym - CSPM = "Continuously Scans Posture for Misconfigurations." If a question mentions continuous, compliance, governance, or benchmarks against standards, that's your CSPM signal. The other CloudGuard products each have a narrow scope (IaaS vs. SaaS, public vs. private), so match the environment in the question to eliminate them quickly.

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