What is cloud hardening?
Hardening is reducing a system's attack surface by removing unneeded services, closing ports, and applying secure configuration settings. CIS Benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security are widely used hardening baselines. Cloud security posture management (CSPM) tools check cloud accounts against such baselines.
What the buyer is really asking
How do you know your cloud accounts, hosts, and containers are configured securely and stay that way? Name the baseline you follow (CIS benchmarks are common) and the tool that detects drift. Infrastructure as code with review is strong evidence.
Other ways buyers ask it
Every one of these wants the same answer:
- “How do you manage configuration and hardening of cloud infrastructure?”
- “Do you follow CIS benchmarks?”
- “How are hosts and containers hardened?”
- “How do you detect cloud misconfigurations?”
Evidence to have ready
- Infrastructure as code repositories
- Cloud security posture findings or a CIS benchmark report
- Your hardening standard
How Tyrvar answers this
Tyrvar treats every wording above as one question. You write the answer once, attach the evidence, and revisit it when your setup changes. Each buyer gets that approved answer no matter how their questionnaire words it. If you have not answered it yet, Tyrvar flags the question for you and does not make something up. Try it on your own questionnaire.
Related cloud and infrastructure questions
- How do you segregate production and non-production environments?
- Do you utilize a Web Application Firewall (WAF)?
- Can customers export their data programmatically, and what portability and exit provisions exist (formats, retention, deletion on termination)?
- Which cloud service providers (CSP) do you use to host your services?