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Cloud Environment Questionnaire

Cloud Environment Questionnaire

This list of questions, with suggested vendors and products, is how I quickly evaluate the technical maturity of companies and projects, which has been developed since 2016 across working with 100+ companies. Any section where a customer does not have a specific solution, can be used to generate a Gap Analysis and then into a project plan.

1. IT Security Regulations

2. Cloud Providers

  • AWS
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google GCP
  • VMware

3. Firewalls

4. Load Balancers

  • AWS ALB (L7) / NLB (L4)
  • Azure Standard Load Balancer (L7) / Gateway Load Balancer (L4)
  • GCP ALB (L7) / NLB (L4)
  • F5 Load Balancer

5. Compute Environments

Serverless

AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP Cloud Run

Cloud Containers

AWS Fargate (EKS or ECS), AWS EKS (K8S), AWS ECS (Docker), Azure AKS (K8S), GCP GKE (K8S)

On-prem Containers

Red Hat OpenShift, VMware Tanzu, Rancher

VMs

AWS EC2 VMs, Azure VM, GCP VM, VMware vSphere

6. Container Provider

Chainguard, SecureChain, Aikido, Rapidfort, Docker Hub

7. VM OSes and versions

Amazon Linux, Windows Server, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch Linux

8. Inventory Management

VMware CloudHealth, CloudQuery, NCCGroup / aws-inventory, DuoSecurity / cloudmapper

9. Cost Management

VMware CloudHealth, AWS Trusted Advisor, CloudDyn, Cloudcheckr

10. Identity Management

Okta, Microsoft Entra ID (formerly AD), GCP Workspace, OneLogin, Ping Identity, Jumpcloud, Cisco Duo, SailPoint

11. Access Management

Teleport, HashiCorp Boundary, Pomerium, Loft

12. Git Provider

Github SaaS, Github on-prem, Gitlab SaaS, Gitlab on-prem, CircleCI, TravisCI, Atlassian Bitbucket

13. CI/CD Pipeline

Github Actions, Gitlab Pipelines, Atlassian Bamboo, Jenkins

14. Configuration Management

K8S - Helm

VMs - Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt

15. Secrets Management

HashiCorp Vault, Thycotic Secret Server, CyberArk Secrets Manager, AWS Secrets Manager, Ansible Vault, Puppet Hiera, Chef Data Bags

16. Deployment Management

Cloud - HashiCorp Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager, GCP Deployment Manager

K8S - ArgoCD, Flux 2, Sveltos

17. Health Monitoring

Prometheus + Grafana, ELK, SignalFX, DataDog, New Relic, Nagios

18. Metrics Monitoring

Prometheus + Grafana, ELK, SignalFX, DataDog, New Relic, Nagios

19. Log Monitoring

Splunk, ELK, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Athena, DataDog, New Relic, SumoLogic

20. Security Log Monitoring

Splunk, ElasticSearch, AWS Security Manager, AWS Athena, DataDog, New Relic, SumoLogic, Panther

21. Alerting

PagerDuty, OpsGenie, VictorOps

22. Security Scanners

CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management)

Enterprise - Wiz, Tenable, Qualys, Ox Security, Orca Security, CrowdStrike, Trend Micro, Sysdig, SentinelOne, Check Point CloudGuard

Open-source - Prowler, Cloud Custodian, Cloudsploit, nccgroup/ScoutSuite, duo-labs/cloudmapper, checkmarx/KICS

Policy as Code

Enterprise - Wiz, OPA (Open Policy Agent), Fugue, Pulimi CrossGuard, Checkov, Black Duck, Trend Micro Cloud One, CheckPoint CloudGuard, Tenable Cloud Security

Open-source - OPA, aquasecurity/trivy, Conftest, tflint, cloudposse/atmos

Secrets Scanning

Enterprise - Wiz, GitHub Secret Scanning, HashiCorp Vault Radar, SentinelOne, Aikido, Check Point Spectral

Open-source - TruffleHog, gitguardian/ggshield, GitLeaks, awslabs/git-secrets, aquasecurity/trivy, yelp/detect-secrets, deepfence/SecretScanner, mongodb/kingfisher

SAST (Static Application Security Testing)

Enterprise - Wiz, Snyk, Veracode, Checkmarx, Ox Security, Datadog Code Security, Black Duck

Open-source - Semgrep, GitHub CodeQL, SonarQube

DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing)

RASP (Runtime Application Self-Protection)

K8S Container Images

Enterprise - Wiz, AquaSec, Aikido, Ox Security

Open-source - aquasecurity/trivy, anchore/grype, quay/clair

K8S Image Registry Security

Open-source - Harbor

K8S Config Security

Enterprise - Wiz, Ox Security, AquaSec, Orca Security

Open-source - Kyverno, open-policy-agent/gatekeeper, Kubernetes ValidatingAdmissionPolicy (CEL), aquasecurity/kube-bench, kubescape

K8S Network Security

Open-source - Calico, Cilium

K8S Runtime Security

Enterprise - Sysdig Falco

Open-source - Falco

23. Security Orchestration and Automation (SOAR)

Enterprise - Wiz, Tines, Torq, Blinkops, Swimlane, Azure Sentinel, Splunk SOAR, Sumo Logic Cloud SOAR

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