Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) has become table stakes —
but most implementations are reactive dashboards that flood teams
with findings they never fix. The real challenge isn't detection;
it's closing the loop between a policy violation and a verified,
auditable remediation — in real time, at scale, across multiple
cloud accounts and environments.

At Zscaler, our team manages cloud infrastructure spanning AWS
across multiple cells and environments — development, staging,
and production — each with distinct compliance requirements.
I'll share how we evolved from a traditional CSPM point-in-time
scan model to a continuous, event-driven compliance engine that
detects, classifies, and remediates posture violations before
they become incidents.

This talk draws directly from U.S. Patent US11722522B2 (assigned
to Zscaler, co-invented by me) on network security posture
architecture, as well as hands-on experience contributing to
CIS Benchmark definitions and building automated compliance
pipelines on AWS.