Security Posture Management

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What you'll learn

  • Review the Security Posture Management coverage of your systems at a glance.
  • Search for relevant information to resolve security and compliance findings efficiently.
  • Drill into results for insights on how to fix misconfigurations and noncompliance.
  • Convert results into a DQL query or download them as CSV and share them with others.

Target audience

The Security Posture Management xSPM app is dedicated to Security Ops Engineers, DevOps, DevSecOps, and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs).

Key use cases include:

  • Gaining immediate insight into the overall security posture of your monitored environment

  • Detecting and addressing security issues and misconfigurations easily

  • Receiving actionable guidance for findings

  • Ensuring your environment is configured securely and efficiently

  • Enhancing the overall system reliability

  • Maintaining continuous compliance with security standards

The Security Posture Management xSPM app is designed to empower organizations with visibility, control, and compliance over their environment. It provides a high-level report on the compliance posture across the selected compliance standards.

The Overview page shows a high-level information about the security compliance state in your environment.The Assessment results page provides a compliance view of all evaluated rules from the supported security standards. The available filters allow for a quick selection based on environment, result state, severity, and others.Assessed resources from your environment are marked as 'Passed' when no misconfigurations are discovered in the context of a given rule.Assessed resources from your environment are marked as 'Failed' when misconfigurations are discovered in the context of a given rule. The Rule assessment section contains details about the relevant configuration properties.
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To get started

  1. Request a token for the Security Posture Management xSPM app and enable the Hub subscription. For details, see Add Hub subscriptions.
  2. In Dynatrace, open Dynatrace Hub.
  3. Look for Security Posture Management and select Install.

When you open Security Posture Management xSPM, you can see your monitored systems listed in Overview.

A monitored system is a system (in the case of Kubernetes Security Posture Management, a cluster) on which Dynatrace monitoring is enabled.

Dynatrace assesses data received from your systems and searches for misconfigurations against the supported compliance standards. Results are reported in the app.

Try the Security Posture Management xSPM app and share your feedback to help us improve.

Learning modules

01Security Posture Management concepts
  • Concept
  • Concepts that are specific to the Dynatrace Security Posture Management app.
02Assess coverage
  • Tutorial
  • Review the Security Posture Management coverage of your systems at a glance.
03Review findings
  • Tutorial
  • Search for relevant information to analyze security and compliance findings efficiently.
04Gain insights
  • Tutorial
  • Drill into results that can help you fix misconfigurations and noncompliance.
05Collaborate with apps and share findings
  • Tutorial
  • Interact with other apps for further insights and share results with stakeholders.
Related tags
Application SecurityxSPMSecurity Posture Management