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Preventive Cloud Security (PCS)

The category name for solutions that stop misconfigurations and risky actions before they happen, instead of detecting them after deployment. PCS tools enable organizations to define and enforce their security policies and guardrails at the cloud control plane, at the moment a change is attempted, regardless of how that change is introduced.

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Enforcement-first security

An operating model where policy is enforced automatically the moment a change is attempted, rather than only observed and reported on afterward.

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Detect-and-remediate model

The traditional, reactive approach where a risk must already exist in your cloud before a scanner can find it and a team can fix it.

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Guardrail

An enforced boundary that prevents a non-compliant change from taking effect, rather than simply flagging it for someone to review later.

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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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