Cloud security posture management that knows what it's protecting
Traditional CSPM tells you a storage bucket is public. JupiterOne tells you which bucket, what's in it, who can reach it, and what that access leads to so you fix what's actually exploitable first, not just what scored highest on a generic severity scale.
Why CSPM alone isn't enough
CSPM tools are good at one thing: comparing your cloud configuration against a benchmark and flagging drift. They're not built to tell you which of those findings actually matters, because they don't know what's connected to what.
Alert volume without prioritization
A CSPM scan returns hundreds of "critical" and "high" findings using a generic severity scale that ignores your environment's actual exposure.
No sense of "so what”
A public storage bucket holding test fixtures and a public storage bucket holding customer PII reachable from an internet-facing app score the same in most CSPM tools. They are not the same risk.
Coverage stops at the cloud service provider boundary
CSPM sees the resources AWS, Azure, and GCP expose, not the identities that can reach them, the code that provisioned them, or the SaaS and on-prem systems around them. That's roughly half a real environment.
CNAPPs narrow the gap but don't close it
Bundling CSPM with CWPP and CIEM adds workload and entitlement scanning, but most CNAPPs still treat cloud, identity, and code as separate data sets scored independently — not one connected graph.
No attack path context
If a misconfigured resource were compromised today, CSPM can't tell you what it connects to, what it can reach, or what's actually at risk downstream (blast radius).
Prioritization stays generic
Security teams describe their current triage logic as "agnostic to the customer" — a fixed, technique-based score that doesn't change based on what's actually deployed in their environment.
Tuning takes time nobody has
A familiar complaint: too much noise, and never enough time to tune it down to where it's actually useful — common enough to be a category-wide problem, not a one-off.
Fix what actually matters
Your team cannot work 8,000 findings. JupiterOne scores each one against asset relationships, crown-jewel proximity and exploitability, so the top of the list is always the right place to start the sprint.
CSPM findings, scored by what they actually touch
JupiterOne ingests the same misconfiguration findings your CSPM tool already generates and places them on a graph of every asset, identity, and relationship in your environment. A finding stops being "critical" in the abstract and becomes: this workload is internet-facing, runs under an over-privileged IAM role, and has a data path to your customer database. That's the difference between a severity score and a risk.
How it works?
Connect
200+ native, agent-free integrations pull in cloud resources, identities, code, endpoints, and your existing CSPM/CNAPP findings — continuously, not on a scan schedule.
Correlate
Every asset is stored as a node with typed relationship edges to everything it touches — which identity can access it, what data it holds, whether it's exposed to the internet, what it was provisioned from.
Prioritize
J1QL queries the whole graph at once: "show every internet-facing resource with a path to a crown jewel asset that's missing a required control." JupiterOne AI answers the same question in plain language for anyone who doesn't want to write a query.
What this adds to CSPM
Blast radius on every finding
Not just what's misconfigured, but what it connects to and what happens if it's exploited
Identity context
Which roles and users can reach a misconfigured resource, not just that the resource exists
Cross-domain coverage
Cloud findings correlated against code, identity, and endpoint data instead of scored in isolation
One graph for compliance and remediation
the same asset data that scores a CSPM finding also generates the evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI, and NIST controls
Context that flows into the tools used
Asset criticality can inform ticket and alarm priority in your existing ITSM or SOAR workflow instead of living in a separate dashboard
Guardrails as policy-as-code
Define the configuration standard once, evaluate it continuously against the live graph, not a point-in-time scan
Core capabilities
Built for how each role actually uses CSPM data
01.
CISO
Walk into a board meeting knowing which cloud misconfigurations are actually exploitable — not just how many your CSPM tool flagged this week.
02.
Security Architect
Model cloud, identity, and code once. Query CSPM and CNAPP findings against the same graph you use for every other asset question.
03.
SecOps / Analyst
Stop triaging by severity label. See exactly what a misconfigured resource connects to and who can reach it before deciding what to fix first.
04.
Platform Engineer / DevOps
Guardrails defined as code and evaluated continuously against what's actually deployed — not a scan report that lands in your queue after the fact.
05.
Security Architect
CSPM findings and remediation map automatically to SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, PCI DSS, and NIST controls — evidence that's current, not reconstructed before an audit.
Frequently asked questions
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What is cloud security posture management (CSPM)?
CSPM is a security discipline that continuously scans cloud environments — AWS, Azure, GCP — for misconfigurations, comparing settings against security benchmarks and compliance frameworks. It flags issues like public storage buckets, overly permissive security groups, and disabled logging.
How does CSPM work?
CSPM tools connect to cloud provider APIs, inventory resources, and check their configuration against a rules engine or benchmark (like CIS). Findings are typically ranked by a generic severity score and surfaced in a dashboard for a security or cloud team to remediate.
What's the difference between CSPM and CNAPP?
CSPM checks cloud configuration. CNAPP (Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform) is a broader category that bundles CSPM with workload protection (CWPP) and identity entitlement management (CIEM) under one vendor. A CNAPP covers more ground than CSPM alone, but often still scores each domain separately rather than as one connected graph.
Do I still need CSPM if I already have a CNAPP?
If your CNAPP includes CSPM, you don't need a separate point tool for configuration scanning. What most teams are still missing isn't another scanner — it's asset context that shows how a CSPM or CNAPP finding connects to identity, data, and the rest of the environment.
Why do CSPM tools generate so many alerts?
Because they score findings against a fixed severity scale without knowing your environment's actual exposure. A misconfiguration on an isolated test resource and the same misconfiguration on a resource with a path to customer data score identically — so everything looks urgent.
Why does my CSPM tool's prioritization feel disconnected from my environment?
Most CSPM prioritization is technique- or severity-based, not customer-aware — it applies the same scoring logic regardless of what's actually deployed in your environment. Two identical findings get the same score even if one sits on an isolated test resource and the other sits on a system with a path to sensitive data.
What is "asset context" in cloud security?
Asset context is the relationship data around a finding: which identities can access the resource, what data it holds, whether it's internet-facing, and what it connects to. It's what turns "this is misconfigured" into "this is exploitable, and here's what happens if it is."
How is JupiterOne different from a standalone CSPM tool?
JupiterOne doesn't replace your CSPM scanner — it ingests its findings and places them on a graph alongside your identity, code, and endpoint data. That's what makes it possible to see blast radius and identity exposure on a finding, not just a configuration deviation.
How long does it take to get CSPM coverage with JupiterOne?
Most customers connect their first integrations and see meaningful asset and finding coverage within hours. Full onboarding — covering the full environment and building out custom guardrails — typically takes days to weeks depending on environment complexity.
See what your CSPM findings are actually connected to
Bring your existing CSPM or CNAPP data into JupiterOne's asset graph and see which findings are exploitable in your environment — not just which ones scored highest.