Comprehensive Cybersecurity Checklist for the Cloud

1. Identity & Access Management (Users, Privileges, Clients)

• Identity & access management
• Privileged identity management
• Identity governance
• Assign a dedicated Cyber team

2. Network security (Anomalies, Threats, Activities)

• Monitoring events
• Inter-workload protection
• Threat detection and prevention

3. Data protection (Databases, Workloads, Content)

• File and folder encryption
• Vulnerability scanning
• Monitoring Logs
• Data loss prevention
• Key lifecycle management

4. Application security (Threat prevention)

• Secure application development
• Application vulnerability assessment & management

5. Visibility and intelligence (Anomalies, Threats, Activities)

• Event correlation
• Multi-cloud & on-premise integration
• Monitoring & alerting

6. Workload centric (Security and DevOps management)

• Cloud security policy management
• Patch management
• Auditing of controls