The document outlines a comprehensive cybersecurity checklist, focusing on identity and access management, data protection, visibility and intelligence, application security, and network security for cloud and on-premise workloads. Key areas include privileged identity management, file encryption, anomaly detection, secure application development, and threat prevention. The checklist is aimed at enhancing security measures in a cloud workload-centric environment.

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Identity & Access Management
(users, privileges, clients)
• identity and access management
• identity governance
• privileged identity management
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Data protection
(databases, workloads, content)
• file and folder encryption
• data loss prevention
• vulnerability scanning
• key lifecycle management
• PII discover and monitoring
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Visibility and intelligence
(anomalies, threats, activities)
• event correlation
• monitoring and alerting
• multi-cloud and on-premise integration
Comprehensive Cybersecurity
Checklist for the Cloud
Workload centric
(security and DevOps management)
• cloud security policy management
• patch management
• auditing of controls
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Application security
(threat prevention)
• secure application development
• application vulnerability assessment and management
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Network security
(anomalies, threats, activities)
• monitoring events
• threat detection and prevention
• inter-workload protection
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