Cloud Security Posture Management Tool That Finds Risks Before Attackers Do

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) is a category of security tooling that continuously monitors your cloud environments - AWS, Azure, GCP - for misconfigurations, compliance gaps, identity risks, and exposure. Indian companies need CSPM because cloud configurations change constantly: new services, new developers, new permissions. Manual audits happen quarterly at best. Attackers scan your environment every 10 minutes. CSPM closes that gap by making security posture monitoring continuous rather than periodic.

Most CSPM tools use scheduled polling, scanning your environment every 1 to 24 hours. Cy5 ion uses an event-driven architecture that detects configuration changes the moment they happen. This eliminates the detection blind spot that scheduled scans create. Additionally, Cy5 correlates findings contextually; identifying toxic combinations like public exposure plus overly permissive IAM, rather than generating thousands of individual alerts your team can't action. The integrated SIEM engine means one platform covers threat detection, compliance, and posture management.

Cy5 ion surfaces its first meaningful findings within 15 minutes of connecting your cloud accounts via read-only IAM permissions. A full baseline posture score and initial compliance gap report are typically available within 1 hour. The entire onboarding process - from first connection to live dashboard - takes under 24 hours for most deployments, as confirmed by multiple fintech and telecom clients.

Yes. Cy5 ion provides cloud security posture management across AWS, Azure, and GCP from a single console. For each platform, ion discovers assets, monitors configuration drift continuously via event-driven detection, maps findings to compliance frameworks, and provides governed remediation workflows. Multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments are fully supported, which is particularly relevant for Indian enterprises running workloads across providers or transitioning between them.

Cy5 ion maps findings to CIS Benchmarks, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and GDPR. For Indian enterprises subject to RBI guidelines on cloud adoption (RBI Cloud Framework), SEBI cybersecurity requirements, and CERT-In incident reporting obligations, Cy5's continuous compliance monitoring and automated evidence compilation significantly reduce the manual effort required for regulatory submissions and audits.

Native cloud security tools are platform-specific and alert-heavy. AWS Security Hub and Azure Defender operate within their respective platforms and don't provide unified multi-cloud visibility. They also generate high alert volumes without contextual correlation, meaning your team still needs to manually triage which findings are actually risky. Cy5 ion provides cross-cloud visibility, intelligent correlation to surface what matters, and an integrated SIEM engine - capabilities that native tools require significant custom engineering to replicate.

Implementation is read-only and agentless. Cy5 ion connects to your cloud environment via read-only IAM permissions - no agents, no code changes, no infrastructure modifications, no production impact. For most organisations, the integration is completed by one engineer in under 30 minutes. Full onboarding - including baseline posture assessment and first compliance report - is completed in under 24 hours. Your engineering team's day-to-day work is not affected.

Cy5 ion is built for cloud-first companies of all sizes - from VC-funded Series B startups in Bengaluru to large enterprises in Mumbai and Gurugram. The platform is specifically designed for lean security teams where one DevSecOps engineer is doing the work of five. Pricing and engagement models are structured for Indian budgets and procurement processes, including pilot-first engagements that let you see real findings before committing.

Auto-remediation in Cy5 ion is governed, not automatic. Each remediation action requires explicit enablement on a per-policy basis, goes through an approval workflow (Slack or Jira integration), executes using least-privileged roles, and rolls back automatically if post-execution checks fail. You can start in monitor-only mode - seeing what Cy5 would remediate without it taking action - and enable governed automation incrementally as your team builds confidence.

For Indian fintech and NBFC companies subject to RBI cloud guidelines and PCI-DSS requirements, the best CSPM tool is one that provides continuous compliance monitoring, automated evidence generation, and alert noise reduction. Cy5 ion has been deployed by multiple fintech and NBFC clients in India, delivering 85-96% alert noise reduction and reducing audit preparation time from months to days. Its integrated SIEM engine also addresses the threat detection requirements that regulators increasingly expect.

Cy5 ion includes a dedicated KSPM module that connects to your Kubernetes clusters via read-only access to the Cluster Admin API. It detects containers running with elevated root privileges, API servers with insecure ports enabled, overly permissive RBAC roles, CoreDNS modification access, and egress/ingress policy gaps. Kubernetes metadata is enriched with your broader cloud context - so findings reflect your actual blast radius, not just abstract CIS benchmark violations.