Overview

Cloud Security Management (CSM) delivers real-time threat detection and continuous configuration audits across your entire cloud infrastructure, all in a unified view for seamless collaboration and faster remediation.

CSM is available in three packages: CSM Enterprise, CSM Pro, and CSM Workload Security. For more information, see Changes to Datadog Cloud Security Management. Each package includes access to a specific set of features, as shown in the following table:

Note: You can enable features that aren’t included in your package at any time by following the instructions on the CSM Setup page.

Prerequsites

• The minimum Datadog Agent version required for CSM is 7.46 or higher.

Supported deployment types and features

The following table summarizes the CSM features available relative to each deployment type.

The following tables represent additional prerequisites relative to each CSM feature.

CSM Threats

CSM Threats supports the following Linux distributions:

Notes:

• Custom kernel builds are not supported.
• For compatibility with a custom Kubernetes network plugin like Cilium or Calico, see the Troubleshooting page.
• Data collection is done using eBPF, so Datadog minimally requires platforms that have underlying Linux kernel versions of 4.15.0+ or have eBPF features backported.

CSM Vulnerabilities

Note: CSM Vulnerabilities is not available for CRI-O runtime and podman runtime.

Vulnerability scanning is supported for hosts and containers running the following OS versions:

CSM Identity Risks

To use CSM Identity Risks, you must enable resource collection for AWS. If you’ve already done this, no additional setup is required.

Notes:

• If you’ve enabled CSM Misconfigurations for your AWS accounts, you already have cloud resource collection enabled.
• Although not required, when you enable CloudTrail logs forwarding, you get additional insights based on the actual usage (or non-usage) of resources in your infrastructure, for example, users and roles with significant gaps between provisioned and used permissions.
  

Scope of coverage

The following table summarizes the scope of coverage available relative to each CSM feature.

Note: CSM Misconfigurations additionally monitors common resources used in your cloud accounts that are running Windows and AWS Fargate, such as EC2 instances, RDS, S3, and ELB.

Next steps

To get started setting up CSM, navigate to the Cloud Security Management Setup page in Datadog, which has detailed steps on how to configure CSM. For detailed setup instructions, see the CSM Enterprise, CSM Pro, CSM Workload Security, and CSM Agentless Scanning setup docs.

Further Reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Getting Started with Cloud Security ManagementDOCUMENTATION Setting up CSM EnterpriseDOCUMENTATION Setting up CSM ProDOCUMENTATION Setting up CSM Workload SecurityDOCUMENTATION