We’re excited to announce the expansion of the Dynatrace security portfolio with new Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) capabilities. The Dynatrace CSPM solution significantly enhances security, compliance, and resource efficiency through continuous monitoring, automated remediation, and centralized visibility for enterprises managing complex hybrid and multicloud environments.

By enabling automated response actions, Dynatrace helps SREs and SecOps teams significantly reduce the time spent fixing compliance and configuration issues. This helps customers continuously fulfill their compliance requirements with strict regulatory timeframes enforced globally.

The importance of addressing key security posture management challenges for businesses

In the dynamic and complex world of hybrid and multicloud environments, relying on manual audits, custom scripts, and general-purpose security tools is no longer enough to achieve efficient security posture management. Here’s why:

Complex configuration management
“30% of all cloud environment attacks during the first half of 2024 used misconfigurations as the initial access vector” – Google Cloud Threat Horizons report. Cloud environments are vast and constantly evolving, making manual identification of misconfigurations virtually impossible. Multicloud and hybrid cloud setups are particularly error-prone, with configuration drift often going unnoticed until it’s too late. This delay in discovery significantly increases a business’s risk exposure. The segmentation between SecOps, who identifies misconfigurations, and DevOps, who implements the remediations, can further delay this process and lead to longer risk exposure. Addressing these challenges proactively is critical to maintaining a secure and efficient cloud infrastructure.

Rising compliance demands
Businesses today are under immense pressure to keep up with stringent regulations surrounding data storage, processing, and access. With compliance requirements constantly evolving and cloud environments growing more complex, staying compliant has become an ongoing challenge.

Traditional, manual compliance checks are labor-intensive and prone to errors, increasing the risk of costly penalties and reputational damage. According to the Ponemon Institute, the average cost of non-compliance has surged to $14.82 million annually per organization.

In addition, cloud misconfigurations are a common culprit behind compliance violations, making it clear that relying on outdated processes is no longer sufficient. The solution? Automation and continuous monitoring. These tools are essential for maintaining compliance seamlessly while safeguarding sensitive data in an increasingly regulated landscape.

For businesses leveraging the cloud, effectively addressing these issues isn’t optional—it’s necessary to maintain operational resilience, regulatory compliance, and customer trust.

Dynatrace brings a smarter approach to cloud security posture management

Significantly different from existing offerings, Dynatrace enhances security posture with observability context, ensuring all cloud resources are effectively monitored, properly configured, and continuously audited for technical requirements of compliance with regulatory standards through automated checks and reports. Potential misconfigurations are detected and prioritized automatically, with clear guidance and workflows for swift remediation. This proactive approach reduces the risk of breaches and mission-critical service disruptions while ensuring consistent enforcement of compliance requirements and reducing manual efforts to mitigate security and regulatory risks.

By offering deep visibility into hybrid and multicloud configurations alongside security and compliance assessments aligned with standards like NIST, CIS, DORA, and more, Dynatrace empowers Security, Operations, and SRE teams to validate, track, and remediate findings efficiently. With a focus on automated enforcement and alignment to technical best practices, Dynatrace delivers enhanced operational efficiency, enabling teams to focus on proactive improvement while creating evidence for auditing processes, saving time and resources, and bolstering overall security hygiene.

Key benefits of Dynatrace CSPM

With Dynatrace CSPM, teams can ensure robust security posture management across hybrid and multicloud environments while maintaining audit readiness and enabling cross-functional teamwork. Here’s how these capabilities come together in the Dynatrace platform to transform cloud security and compliance:

Proactive issue resolution
Identify and address security risks before they escalate. Automatically and continuously monitor hybrid and multicloud configurations to identify risky configurations or patterns that can lead to security violations or downtime. Leverage tailored workflows to ensure quick resolution.

For example, a Japanese financial Dynatrace customer reduced troubleshooting and issue identification time by 80% by leveraging automated scans that continuously prioritized latent risks and compliance issues. This approach eliminated manual cross-referencing, allowing proactive resolution before problems escalated.

Continuous compliance assessments
Continuous compliance assessments allow for better audit readiness without needing time-intensive manual assessment tracking. This capability enables the assessment, reporting, and remediation of compliance-relevant findings across hybrid and multicloud environments.

For example, another Dynatrace customer, a German medical company, saved hundreds of hours across the entire IT team on security compliance by shifting from disparate solutions and lots of manual effort, research, cross-referencing, and analysis to a single platform with risk-based prioritization and context.

Enhanced collaboration with Grail
With the power of Dynatrace Grail™ data lakehouse, teams can extend the value of their security posture management findings via Dynatrace Notebooks, Dashboards, and Workflows. Grail allows for collaboration and remediation actions across multiple teams. SecOps teams can proactively hunt for threats and perform Incident Response in a single platform, greatly increasing efficiency and MTTR.

For example, by implementing automated reporting and prioritization workflows, a Dynatrace customer in the UK reduced their monthly incidents and unresolved issues by 80%, freeing up significant staff hours to focus on proactive maintenance.

Comprehensive cloud security in one platform

Dynatrace offers cloud teams a unified platform for all cloud security and observability needs. It provides complete visibility into all the cloud environments, identifying runtime vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and security risks, along with their potential impact, without false positives. As a unified security and observability platform, Dynatrace provides end-to-end visibility and analytics to shift from disparate tools and data silos to efficient modernization and collaboration.

Dynatrace continuous discovery and visualization of dynamic environments—including hosts, virtualization, network, and services, helps you accelerate and measure the success of your cloud transformation.