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Cloud Defense

FireMon Cloud Defense is a cloud security operations platform that monitors, alerts on, and responds to security risk across your public cloud infrastructure. The application runs at app.defense.firemon.cloud. Cloud Defense provides:

  • Immediate visibility into your risks and threats
  • Critical issues routed to the right responders
  • Security context and expert guidance to remediate issues
  • Reporting to plan and track your risk reduction
  • Playbooks with pre-built, automated response actions

In this section​

  • Cloud Accounts: add and provision the AWS accounts, Azure subscriptions, and GCP projects Cloud Defense monitors
  • Inventory: the resources discovered from your cloud accounts, with links to each provider's supported resource types
  • Cloud Security Posture Management: the posture monitoring checks that find misconfigured resources, and the actions that remediate them
  • Threat Monitoring: the detectors that watch for incidents in progress, and the actions that respond to them
  • Cloud Security Maturity Model: how your deployments are assessed against the CSMM, and how to read the maturity dashboard
  • Alerts: personal alert settings, the alert rules that route issues, and how to connect Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Amazon SNS
  • Authentication: single sign-on with SAML, and API keys for systems that send data to Cloud Defense
  • FireMon Authorization Control: just-in-time access to your AWS accounts through the Access Server, access templates, and the CLI
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