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CIEM

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management – tooling focused specifically on mapping and right-sizing identity permissions across a cloud environment.

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CSPM

Cloud Security Posture Management – tooling that assesses deployed cloud environments against security and compliance policies, identifying and prioritizing posture risks for remediation. Its core model is detect-and-remediate: identify risks in the existing cloud environment and help teams address them.

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CNAPP

Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform – a broader category bundling CSPM, workload protection, and other cloud security capabilities into one platform.

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Blast radius

The maximum damage an attacker could do, or a misconfiguration could expose, once a single resource is compromised.

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Zero trust (cloud context)

An architecture principle where no request is trusted by default based on network location or identity alone – every action is checked against policy.

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