10 Best CSPM Solutions for Multi-Cloud Environments (Ranked & Reviewed)

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In 2025, the multi-cloud reality is no longer a trend; it is the standard operating model for enterprise infrastructure. However, the velocity at which DevOps teams deploy resources across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has vastly outpaced traditional security controls. The result is an exponentially expanding attack surface defined by complexity and asset sprawl.

The primary vector for cloud breaches remains consistent: misconfiguration. Gartner continues to predict that over 99% of cloud security failures will be the customer’s fault.

So, enterprise-grade Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solutions become critical in this scenario. Modern CSPM is about gaining continuous, automated visibility across disparate cloud providers, contextualizing risk, and remediating drift before an attacker exploits it.

But the market is crowded with vendors claiming “single pane of glass” visibility. Which ones actually deliver on the technical requirements of a modern CISO and Cloud Architect?

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In this in-depth review, we rank and analyze the 10 best CSPM solutions for multi-cloud environments, evaluating their architecture, depth of visibility, remediation capabilities, and integration into the DevSecOps lifecycle.

What Exactly is a CSPM Solution?

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) is a category of security tools designed to identify misconfigurations and compliance risks in the cloud.

If you think of your cloud provider (like AWS) as a landlord, they are responsible for the building’s structural integrity (the “Security of the Cloud”). However, you are responsible for locking your own doors and windows (the “Security in the Cloud”).

A CSPM solution acts as your automated security guard, constantly walking the perimeter to ensure:

• No “Front Doors” are Left Open: (e.g., Publicly accessible S3 buckets).
• Keys are Managed: (e.g., Identifying overly permissive IAM roles).
• Regulations are Met: (e.g., Continuous auditing for SOC2, HIPAA, or GDPR).
• Drift is Detected: (e.g., Alerting you when a developer changes a security group setting).

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The Criteria: What Defines a Top-Tier Multi-Cloud CSPM in 2025?

Before exploring the rankings, it is crucial to establish the technical criteria that separate legacy compliance tools from modern, effective CSPM solutions. In 2025, a viable multi-cloud CSPM must offer:

• True Agentless Visibility: The ability to connect via cloud-native APIs and utilize snapshotting technology (like AWS EBS snapshots) to scan workloads without deploying agents, which is critical for immediate time-to-value and zero friction with DevOps.
• Graph-Based Risk Context: Moving beyond lists of isolated alerts. The best CSPM solutions use graph databases to model the relationships between assets, identities, and network exposures to identify toxic combinations (attack paths).
• Multi-Cloud Normalization: The ability to ingest data from AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Kubernetes and normalize it into a single, queryable data model, regardless of the underlying provider’s nomenclature.
• Automated & Guided Remediation: Providing more than just a PDF report. The solution must offer one-click remediation within the console, send Terraform/CloudFormation snippets to engineers, or trigger automated serverless functions to fix critical drift instantly.
• Shift-Left Capabilities (IaC Scanning): The ability to scan Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates (Terraform, Ansible, Helm) in the CI/CD pipeline to catch misconfigurations before deployment.

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10 Best CSPM Solutions of 2025 (Ranked)

(Disclaimer: Rankings are based on technical capabilities for general multi-cloud enterprise use cases as of late 2025. Your specific needs may prioritize different features.)

1. Wiz

Tagline: The speed king of agentless visibility and graph-based context.

Technical Overview: Wiz has dominated the conversation in recent years by popularizing the “agentless” approach. It connects via API roles in minutes and immediately begins scanning cloud workloads by taking snapshots of volumes and analyzing them out-of-band. It then builds a massive “Security Graph” that correlates diverse risks across varied cloud providers.

Key Multi-Cloud Features

• Contextual Attack Path Analysis: Wiz doesn’t just tell you an S3 bucket is public. It tells you that an S3 bucket is public, contains sensitive PII, and is accessible by a VM with a critical, exploitable vulnerability. That is actionable context.
• Rapid Time-to-Value: It is not uncommon for enterprises to onboard hundreds of AWS accounts and Azure subscriptions and get full visibility within 24 hours.
• Unified Data Model: Excellent normalization across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Alibaba Cloud.

Pros: Zero friction deployment; incredibly intuitive UI for querying complex infrastructure; industry-leading risk prioritization.

Cons: Purely agentless approach means no real-time runtime blocking capabilities (requires separate CWPP integration).

Best For: Rapidly scaling enterprises needing immediate, deep visibility across a messy multi-cloud estate without angering DevOps teams.

2. Orca Security

Tagline: Comprehensive “SideScanning” for 100% deep coverage without agents.

Technical Overview: Similar to Wiz, Orca Security is fundamentally agentless. Its proprietary “SideScanning” technology reads the runtime block storage of workloads via cloud provider APIs. It combines this workload-level data with control plane metadata to provide a unified view of risks.

Key Multi-Cloud Features

• Full-Stack Visibility: Because it reads the block storage, Orca can identify OS vulnerabilities, malware, misplaced secrets, and misconfigurations inside the VM, not just the cloud wrapper settings.
• No Packet Filtering: Unlike network-based scanners, Orca’s approach guarantees 100% asset coverage as long as the API connection exists, ensuring no “shadow IT” assets are missed across different clouds.

Pros: Extremely deep visibility into workloads without the performance hit of agents; excellent compliance reporting; strong focus on prioritizing the few alerts that actually matter.

Cons: Like Wiz, its reliance on snapshots means it is near real-time, not instant real-time.

Best For: Organizations that want the depth of host-based scanning without the operational nightmare of managing agents across multi-cloud VMs.

3. Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks

Tagline: The enterprise heavyweight for comprehensive Code-to-Cloud security.

Technical Overview: Prisma Cloud is perhaps the most comprehensive Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) on the market, largely built through the acquisition of top-tier tools (like RedLock for CSPM and Bridgecrew for IaC). It offers both agentless scanning and agent-based protection, covering the entire lifecycle.

Key Multi-Cloud Features

• Massive Policy Library: Prisma Cloud boasts one of the largest libraries of out-of-the-box policies for compliance standards (PCI, HIPAA, SOC2, NIST) across every major cloud provider.
• Superior “Shift Left”: Thanks to the Bridgecrew integration, its ability to scan IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes manifests) and provide fix pull requests directly to developers is market-leading.
• True Runtime Protection: Unlike purely agentless tools, Prisma can deploy defenders for real-time blocking of threats.

Pros: An all-in-one platform (CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, Code Security); highly customizable policy engine; enterprise-grade RBAC and reporting.

Cons: Can be expensive and complex to deploy fully; the UI can feel overwhelming due to the sheer volume of features.

Best For: Large enterprises standardize on Palo Alto Networks, looking for a single, powerful platform to cover every aspect of cloud security from development to runtime.

4. Lacework (A Fortinet Company)

Tagline: Data-driven anomaly detection using patented Polygraph technology.

Technical Overview: Recently acquired by Fortinet, Lacework takes a data-centric approach. While it offers CSPM capabilities, its differentiator is its “Polygraph” technology aimed at runtime. It ingests massive amounts of cloud log data (CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, etc.) to build a behavioral baseline of your environment and detects deviations that indicate a breach.

Key Multi-Cloud Features

• Behavioral Analytics over Static Rules: While it checks for misconfigurations, Lacework shines at finding unknown threats by identifying anomalous behaviors across multi-cloud environments that static CSPM rules might miss.
• Composite Alerts: It excels at reducing alert fatigue by correlating multiple low-fidelity events into a single, high-confidence “composite alert.”

Pros: Excellent at detecting “unknown unknowns” and zero-days through behavioral change; strong data correlation capabilities.

Cons: Requires a learning period to establish baselines; CSPM interface is sometimes secondary to its threat detection capabilities.

Best For: Organizations prioritizing threat detection and response alongside posture management, who want AI-driven behavioral analysis.

5. Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Tagline: The path of least resistance for Azure-heavy multi-cloud shops.

Technical Overview: Formerly Azure Security Center, Defender for Cloud has evolved into a capable multi-cloud CSPM. It is native to Azure but includes robust connectors for AWS and GCP. It utilizes Azure Arc to extend management and security to non-Azure resources.

Key Multi-Cloud Features

• Native Integration: If you are an Azure shop, it is already there. The integration with other Microsoft security products (like Sentinel SIEM) is seamless.
• Secure Score: Provides a gamified, unified “Secure Score” across AWS, Azure, and GCP, offering a clear metric for executive reporting on posture improvement.
• Regulatory Compliance Dashboard: Excellent built-in tracking against major regulatory standards across joined clouds.

Pros: Included with many Azure licenses (basic tier); seamless experience for Microsoft ecosystems; strong governance capabilities.

Cons: While multi-cloud, Azure is clearly the “first-class citizen”; GCP capabilities sometimes lag behind AWS/Azure features.

Best For: Organizations with a significant Azure footprint expanding into multi-cloud, who want a consolidated view without buying a third-party tool.

6. Sysdig Secure

Tagline: Cloud security built on a foundation of deep runtime visibility.

Technical Overview: Sysdig’s roots are in container and Kubernetes security, leveraging Falco (open source) for real-time system call analysis. They have successfully expanded into a full CNAPP with robust CSPM capabilities.

Key Multi-Cloud Features

• Real-Time focus: Sysdig’s architecture is built for speed. Its CSPM detects drift rapidly, and its runtime security detects threats instantly.
• Kubernetes & Container Depth: If your multi-cloud strategy relies heavily on K8s (EKS, AKS, GKE), Sysdig offers unparalleled depth of visibility into the container layer.

Pros: Best-in-class runtime security; deep integration with modern cloud-native stacks; strong open-source roots.

Cons: CSPM features, while strong, are sometimes overshadowed by their runtime capabilities.

Best For: Kubernetes-heavy environments and DevSecOps teams that prioritize real-time detection and response.

7. CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

Tagline: Adversary-focused cloud security from the endpoint leader.

Technical Overview: CrowdStrike has aggressively expanded its dominant endpoint platform into the cloud. Their CSPM offering combines agentless control plane assessment with the option to use their famous lightweight agent on cloud workloads for unified visibility.

Key Multi-Cloud Features

• Unified Agent Strategy: If you already use CrowdStrike on laptops and servers, extending it to cloud workloads is seamless, providing a single console for EDR and Cloud Security.
• Threat Intelligence Integration: CrowdStrike’s world-class threat intelligence is baked into their CSPM, helping prioritize misconfigurations that known threat actors are actively exploiting.

Pros: Single agent for hybrid environments; incredible threat intelligence context; strong incident response capabilities.

Cons: The full power is realized best when using the agent, which some cloud teams resist.

Best For: Current CrowdStrike customers looking to unify their on-prem and cloud security posture under one roof.

8. Tenable Cloud Security (formerly Ermetic/Accurics)

Tagline: Mastering identity and infrastructure drift.

Technical Overview: Tenable has bolstered its cloud offering through acquisitions like Ermetic (CIEM) and Accurics (IaC). This has resulted in a highly capable CSPM with unique strengths in identity governance and “drift detection.”

Key Multi-Cloud Features

• Identity-First Security (CIEM): Thanks to Ermetic, Tenable has exceptional capabilities in mapping complex multi-cloud permissions, identifying excessive entitlements, and recommending least-privilege policies across AWS IAM, Azure AD, and GCP roles.
• Infrastructure as Code Drift Detection: It excels at comparing running cloud infrastructure against the IaC templates that created it, alerting immediately on configuration drift.

Pros: Best-in-class Identity and Entitlement Management (CIEM) integrated with CSPM; strong focus on IaC governance.

Cons: The integration of various acquired technologies is still maturing into a fully unified experience.

Best For: Organizations where identity complexity and excessive permissions are the primary concern in their multi-cloud environment.

9. Check Point CloudGuard

Tagline: Veteran security and compliance for complex hybrid networks.

Technical Overview: Check Point is a stalwart in network security. CloudGuard translates that expertise to the cloud, offering a CSPM with very strong network visualization and compliance enforcement capabilities across public and private clouds.

Key Multi-Cloud Features

• Traffic Visualization: Excellent tools for visualizing network traffic flows across multi-cloud VNets/VPCs, helping identify overly permissive security groups.
• Compliance Engine: A very mature and robust engine for managing continuous compliance against hundreds of regulatory frameworks.

Pros: Strong heritage in network security; trusted brand for large enterprise compliance; good hybrid support.

Cons: UI can feel dated compared to newer entrants like Wiz or Orca; setup can be complex.

Best For: Highly regulated enterprises with hybrid environments (on-prem + multi-cloud) that need rigorous compliance reporting and network control.

10. Sonrai Security

Tagline: Unraveling the complexity of identity and data access in the cloud.

Technical Overview: Sonrai Security is often classified as a CIEM (Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management) first, but its platform provides deep CSPM capabilities centered around identity and data. It uses a graph to map exactly who (person or non-human identity) can access what data.

Key Multi-Cloud Features

• Data Access Analytics: Sonrai focuses intensely on the path to data. It doesn’t just check bucket permissions; it maps complex role assumption chains across clouds to show potential data exfiltration paths.
• Permission Rightsizing: It provides actionable recommendations to strip away unused permissions across multi-cloud environments to achieve least privilege.

Pros: Unparalleled view into identity and data access risks; strong graphing capabilities for complex permission structures.

Cons: Niche focus on identity/data means it might need to be paired with other tools for broader workload security.

Best For: Enterprises struggling to manage complex IAM roles and data sovereignty across multiple cloud providers.

Conclusion

Selecting the “best” CSPM solution for 2025 depends heavily on your organization’s maturity, technical debt, and primary cloud providers.

If speed and friction-free visibility are paramount, the agentless leaders like Wiz and Orca are hard to beat. If you require a comprehensive, all-in-one platform that spans from code to runtime blocking, Prisma Cloud remains a top contender. For those deep in the Microsoft ecosystem, Defender for Cloud is the logical starting point.

Don’t rely solely on vendor marketing. The best approach is to select your top three candidates and run a two-week Proof of Concept (POC). Connect them to your messiest, most complex multi-cloud accounts and see which solution provides the most actionable context and the least noise.

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