Cisco CCNP Security Core (SCOR) 350-701Cloud SecurityHard
A global enterprise is migrating its legacy applications to a multi-cloud environment. The security team identifies a significant challenge in maintaining consistent security policies and visibility across different cloud providers, each with its own native security tools and APIs. They need a solution that can centralize security policy enforcement, threat detection, and incident response across all cloud platforms. Which advanced cloud security solution would best address this need?
- ACloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
- BCloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
- CCloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
- DSecurity Information and Event Management (SIEM)
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Correct answer: B. Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
A Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) integrates capabilities like CSPM, CWPP, and cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) into a single platform. This holistic approach provides comprehensive visibility, consistent policy enforcement, and threat detection across the entire cloud-native application lifecycle and multi-cloud environments, addressing the challenge of disparate native tools.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. A CSPM focuses on identifying and remediating misconfigurations and compliance issues in cloud infrastructure, but often lacks the integrated runtime protection (CWPP) and broader lifecycle coverage of a CNAPP, especially for multi-cloud consistency.
- C. A CASB primarily focuses on securing SaaS applications and data in transit/at rest within those applications, not comprehensive multi-cloud infrastructure security and policy enforcement.
- D. A SIEM aggregates logs and events for analysis, but doesn't inherently provide centralized policy enforcement or direct remediation capabilities across different cloud providers' security controls.
Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
A unified platform that combines multiple cloud security capabilities (CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, etc.) to secure cloud-native applications across the full lifecycle.
- Provides holistic security for multi-cloud environments.
- Integrates posture management, workload protection, and identity security.
- Offers centralized visibility and policy enforcement.
Memory trick: CNAPP: Comprehensive Native Application Protection Platform.