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How are you managing cloud risk?
Learn why managing cloud risk demands unified visibility, continuous risk assessment, and efficient security operations. Discover how a full-featured CNAPP like Trend Vision One™ Cloud Security enables organizations to move from reactive to proactive cloud protection.
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Most experts agree that a proactive, prioritized approach is the best way to manage cloud risk. So, what are the capabilities needed to put that in place and why is a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) key to delivering them?
From potential cyberattacks to compliance lapses and plain old human error, enterprises face no end of threats when it comes to the cloud. Hybrid and multi-cloud environments are especially hard to defend given the limited control and visibility most security teams have over and across them. But there are ways for organizations to manage cloud risk, hinging on the key capabilities of unified visibility, active risk management, and efficient security operations. This blog explores all three, and how a full-featured cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) can deliver them.
In its Top Threats to Cloud Computing - Deep Dive 2025, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) plucks key insights from recent real-world cybersecurity incidents to propose a list of ‘must-haves’ for cloud security today.
Among its conclusions, the CSA says continuous auditing and security automation, anomaly detection, centralized logging, and proactive cloud governance are crucial. It also warns that, “Traditional incident response plans fail to account for cloud complexity.”
Those findings and the rest of the report underscore the importance of taking a proactive, risk-based approach to cloud security. The question for many organizations is “how?” What’s needed to get out of reactive mode and adopt a genuinely proactive stance? Securing cloud environments today is like trying to fix a plane while it’s flying. You need visibility, automation, and coordination - all without slowing down innovation.
Know your cloud risks
The amount of sensitive data stored in and circulating throughout cloud environments keeps growing. Cybercriminals are aware of this and eager to exploit any cloud vulnerabilities they find, not only for ransomware but to encrypt and steal data, with consequences ranging from operational disruptions to financial losses and reputational damage.
But cyberattacks aren’t the only concern. Maintaining regulatory compliance in hybrid and multi-cloud environments can be equally sweat-inducing. It’s often difficult to know exactly where data resides or how it might be exposed, especially when workloads spin up and down in seconds and assets may exist only briefly before disappearing.
The factors that contribute to these and other cloud risks seem to be multiplying every day. Some of the vital ones include:
- An expansive attack surface
Cloud environments by their very nature are exposed, and in hybrid and multi-cloud situations that exposure is complicated by webs of interconnection. While access, authorizations, and permissions are used rigorously to manage user and device privileges, the fact is the more exchanges there are, the more handoffs between on-premises and remote servers to run particular applications, for example, the more potential points of vulnerability there are going to be.
- Low visibility
Traditional security point solutions aren’t typically designed to ‘see’ across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. That leaves security teams with constrained and siloed views of the overall cloud environment, having to stitch together for themselves, often manually, an understanding of risks and vulnerabilities across the entire hybrid cloud environment. The odds of something slipping through the cracks are high.
- Misconfigurations
Misconfigurations are a primary source of cloud vulnerabilities, undermining even the best security practices by creating inadvertent weak points for bad actors to take advantage of.
- Insider threats
As noted by the CSA in its Top Threats to Cloud Computing report, “cloud security must account for human error and persistent threats”. Even if a user isn’t malicious, mistakes can be costly. The potential for human error counts as an insider threat.
To manage risk, you first need to see it
A key part of proactive cloud risk management is being able to prioritize knowing which threats and vulnerabilities matter most, or most urgently, and dealing with them first.
This is critical especially because many security teams today are already buried in alerts, struggling to make sense of all the noise crashing in on them. That combined with the visibility issues inherent in hybrid and multi-cloud environments makes response and resolution times far slower than they should be, undermining overall security performance.
Solving these challenges requires three specific sets of capabilities: unified visibility, active risk assessment, and efficient security operations.
1. Unified visibility of cloud risks
This means not only being able to see risks across hybrid and multi-cloud environments but also having a centralized way of visualizing them, so that security teams can access a single, complete picture of the total cloud risk environment. That picture needs to include at-risk assets, over privileged access, misconfigurations, all known vulnerabilities, and immediate, real-time threat detection alerts.
2. Active risk management
The wave of risk-management thinking running through cybersecurity generally these days applies very much to cloud security. It’s about assessing and reassessing risk continuously and prioritizing vulnerabilities and threats, responding to what matters most first.
This demands an understanding both of vulnerabilities and threats an organization has already encountered and emerging ones.
Continuous vigilance radically increases the odds of identifying risks early enough that they can be mitigated before data, assets, or systems are compromised, in other words, proactively.
3. Efficient security operations
Operational efficiency is what keeps the security team’s head above water as the scale and complexity of cloud environments continue to grow. Clear, simple policies, automated actions and playbooks, and fewer tools all make a difference. On its own, reducing the number of tools can have profound effects, since many organizations today may rely on 15 or more to cover their full range of cloud security needs.
Security teams also need ways to simplify how they monitor and ensure compliance with internal cloud policies and external regulations: not just a snapshot but also showing compliance evolution over time.
Why CNAPP is critical
Unifying visibility, enabling continuous risk management, and automating efficient security operations are separately and together, virtually impossible to accomplish without a centralized cloud security platform.
A well-integrated CNAPP that covers the full cloud security stack can provide visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, support informed, risk-based prioritization of cloud security activities, and drastically reduce cybersecurity tool sprawl and alert fatigue.
While ‘platformization’ may sound like a buzzword, in truth shifting to a platform-based approach to cloud security is the only way to comprehensively and proactively manage cloud risk, ticking many of the boxes identified by the CSA in its deep dive into today’s top cloud threats.
Trend Vision One™ Cloud Security: A CNAPP built for real-world risk
Trend Vision One Cloud Security is designed to meet the exact challenges outlined above. As a full-featured CNAPP, it delivers the unified visibility, active risk management, and operational efficiency that modern cloud environments demand.
With native integration across CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, and container security, Trend Vision One provides:
- End-to-end visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including ephemeral assets and workloads.
- Risk-based prioritization powered by real-time threat intelligence and contextual analysis, so teams can focus on what matters most.
- Automated remediation and policy enforcement, reducing manual effort and accelerating response times.
- Compliance tracking and reporting that evolves with your cloud footprint, helping ensure audit-readiness across regions and regulations.
Unlike fragmented toolsets that create silos and cause alert fatigue, Trend Vision One consolidates cloud security into a single, intelligent platform, giving security teams the clarity and control they need to move from reactive to proactive.
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