Cloud SecOps is security operations for your cloud environments: the daily work of watching them, spotting threats, investigating alerts and responding when something is real. Cloud security tools protect your environment. SecOps is the team and the process that run them.
In the cloud, the picture changes constantly. New accounts, services and users appear every day, and a single misconfiguration can expose data. A cloud SecOps service keeps up with that change through continuous monitoring, threat detection and response across your AWS and Azure environments.
It also works alongside your cloud and engineering teams, so security issues are fixed in the way your business actually builds and runs its systems. If you are still choosing the tools, start with our cloud security solutions. For continuous coverage beyond the cloud, see our managed security services.
The exact scope varies, but a cloud SecOps service normally includes these.
Continuous monitoring. Logs and alerts from your cloud accounts, workloads and apps, watched around the clock.
Threat detection and alert triage. Sorting real threats from noise, and investigating the ones that matter.
Incident response. Helping contain a threat and recover, with a record of what happened.
Misconfiguration and vulnerability management. Finding the settings and weaknesses that expose you, and tracking them until they are fixed.
Access reviews and reporting. Checking who can reach what, and reporting on it in plain language.
The terms overlap, and they describe different jobs.
Cloud SecOps runs security day to day in your cloud: monitoring, detection, response and clean-up.
DevSecOps builds security into how software is developed and released, for example by checking code and pipelines before anything goes live.
A SOC (security operations center) is the team that watches alerts and responds. Cloud SecOps often runs through one, which is why many businesses use a provider instead of building their own. See our managed security services.
To talk about what your cloud environment needs, contact our team.
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Cloud SecOps is security operations for your cloud environments: continuous monitoring, threat detection, investigation and response. It is the day-to-day work of running your cloud security, not just buying the tools.
Cloud security is the set of controls and tools that protect your cloud environment. Cloud SecOps is the team and process that operate them every day, watching for threats and acting on what they find.
Cloud SecOps runs security in your live cloud environment. DevSecOps builds security into software development, for example by checking code and pipelines before release. Many businesses need both.
Not necessarily. Many businesses use a provider's security operations center, so they get round-the-clock coverage without hiring and training a team of their own.
Our cloud SecOps service covers AWS and Microsoft Azure environments.
Usually a list of your cloud accounts and subscriptions, access to your logs and configuration, and the names of the people to contact when something needs attention.
