Cloud Security Maturity Models

Industry resources defining Cloud Security Maturity Models.

By leveraging a maturity model for cloud security, organizations can gain valuable insights into their current security posture, identify areas for improvement, and establish a roadmap for enhancing their overall security capabilities.

This proactive approach not only helps mitigate risks but also enables organizations to adapt to the evolving threat landscape and regulatory requirements in the cloud environment.

References

  1. The Cloud Security Maturity Model (CSMM) was co-developed by IANS and Securosis and is administered in partnership with the Cloud Security Alliance. It is designed to help organizations understand what their cloud security journey looks like and, more importantly, to consciously determine how mature they want to be for each category and gain recommendations to increase maturity.
  2. CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model – CISA’s ZTMM is a roadmap that organizations can reference as they implement a zero trust architecture. It aims to assist organizations in the development of ZT strategies and implementation plans. It includes five pillars and three cross-cutting capabilities, is based on the foundations of zero trust. Within each pillar, the maturity model provides specific examples of traditional, initial, advanced, and optimal zero trust architectures.
  3. AWS Security Maturity Model – Currently being used by over 100 AWS Solutions Architects to improve the security posture of their customers and had over 40.000 unique users in the last 12 months.
  4. The DevSecOps Maturity Model shows security measures which are applied when using DevOps strategies and how these can be prioritized.
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