With automated and dynamic cloud platforms and services, a growing array of vulnerabilities, and an evolving attack surface, traditional agent-based vulnerability management programs just don’t work anymore.

Security teams need a robust platform that:

Balances the “security vs. agility” of cloud native environments
Prioritizes based on risk rather than generic severity/criticality scores
Works seamlessly with cloud services
Provides the right remediation at the right time, in the right workflows

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The Problem

Incomplete vulnerability management leaves you exposed

Lack of visibility and control

Cloud services and multicloud deployments present a visibility and control challenge for security teams tasked with mitigating vulnerabilities and maintaining compliance.

Exploitable weaknesses

Unpatched vulnerabilities are open doors for malware and more. Without proactive vulnerability management, you’re left with unknown and uncontrolled risk and noncompliance.

Missing context

As they contend with a high volume of low-risk and out-of-context alerts, many security and operations teams struggle to prioritize and address critical vulnerabilities.

Limitations of agent-based solutions

Deploying security agents is resource-intensive, and they can hamper application performance, overwhelm compute resources, and increase your cost of ownership.

Solution Overview

Zscaler Posture Control

Agentless cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP)
Posture Control puts every vulnerability in context with agentless scanning for containers and VM workloads, assessing risk by severity, infrastructure configuration, accessibility of sensitive data, external exposure, entitlements, permissions, and more.

That means security teams can focus on addressing real risks instead of wasting time on vulnerabilities attackers aren’t likely to exploit.

Posture Control secures cloud infrastructure, sensitive data, and native apps across multicloud environments while reducing complexity and helping security teams more effectively collaborate with development and DevOps.

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Unique vulnerability scanning capabilities in Posture Control

Take an agentless approach

Get broader security coverage and full-stack visibility across AWS, GCP, and Azure
Deploy in minutes with read-only access to VMs, containers, serverless, and all cloud infrastructure resources to build a complete risk profile
Uncover known vulnerabilities and important risks with continuous scanning for workloads and containers—without impacting performance
Prioritize remediation steps with rich visualization, context, and reporting about the severity of each vulnerability and impacted repositories

Uncover critical risks

Track, measure, and predict vulnerabilities and exploit activity
Correlate detected vulnerabilities with CVEs and CVSS scores
Rank vulnerabilities by risk score based on exploitability, severity, affected assets, and impacted repositories
Prioritize vulnerabilities most likely to be exploited in the near future and prevent new vulnerabilities from developing
Reduce alert fatigue, eliminate data silos, save time, and ease investigation and remediation

Find what you can’t see

Detect risks at the cloud infrastructure, OS, app, and data layers of your AWS, Azure, and GCP
Extend 100% coverage to cloud infrastructure assets, including VMs, containers, serverless, and all cloud infrastructure resources (buckets, security groups, VPCs, IAM roles and permissions, etc.)
Scan Linux operating system packages and app/language-specific packages (Amazon Linux, SUSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Alpine, Oracle Linux, Java [POM/JAR], Python)

Get real-time risk intelligence

Leverage near-real-time visibility into known vulnerabilities on critical assets, public exposures, noncompliant deployments, and misconfigured resources
View and prioritize critical issues identified in the cloud environment in an actionable, dedicated dashboard

The Zscaler Difference

Power up your vulnerability management process

Secure

Deploy Posture Control in minutes for comprehensive coverage without agents or infrastructure changes

Simplify

Consolidate your security stack, reduce costs, and cut the complexity of multiple point products, consoles, integrations, and resources

Transform

Balance security and agility with a cloud native solution—secure infrastructure, apps, and data with one frictionless platform

Next Steps

Get started now

Upgrade from traditional agent-based scanning to the agentless, cloud native Posture Control. Our experts will help you evaluate your current vulnerability management capabilities, assess gaps, and develop an adoption plan.