Best Cloud Compliance Software

Hyperproof is a governance, risk, and compliance platform built for organizations that juggle multiple regulatory frameworks. Rather than treating each standard as a separate project, Hyperproof maps a single set of controls across 160+ frameworks, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and NIST, so evidence gathered once can satisfy multiple audits without duplicate work. Purpose-built AI agents surface relevant evidence, validate controls, and flag compliance gaps automatically, cutting down the manual review that typically eats up a compliance team's week. The platform connects directly to the tools IT and security teams already use — including GitHub, Jira, ServiceNow, Snyk, CrowdStrike, MongoDB Atlas, Google Workspace, and Microsoft SharePoint — and pulls evidence into Hyperproof, eliminating the need for teams to chase it down manually. High-frequency controls can be tested on a recurring schedule, with failures automatically generating tasks and escalations so nothing slips through the cracks between audit cycles. A built-in risk register lets risk owners across departments document risk treatment plans and tie them directly to the controls that address them. Hyperproof also supports organizations with complex structures, letting larger companies scope controls to specific business units, subsidiaries, or entities rather than forcing everything into one flat compliance program. Customers report meaningful results from this approach: a 70% increase in compliance productivity, roughly $150,000 in annual savings on control orchestration, a 66% cut in duplicative controls, and about 350 fewer hours spent on audit preparation each year. Founded in 2018 and based in the Seattle area, Hyperproof works with organizations like Reddit, Fortinet, Appian, Outreach, and Thales as they move from reactive, spreadsheet-driven compliance to a continuous, audit-ready operating model. Best fit: IT, security, and compliance teams at growing technology companies that manage multiple frameworks simultaneously and want to reduce the manual overhead of audit prep.

Designed for organizations operating in the cloud who need complete, centralized visibility of their entire cloud estate and want more time and resources dedicated to remediating the actual risks that matter, Orca Security is an agentless cloud Security Platform that provides security teams with 100% coverage their entire cloud environment. Instead of layering multiple siloed tools together or deploying cumbersome agents, Orca combines two revolutionary approaches - SideScanning, that enables frictionless and complete coverage without the need to maintain agents, and the Unified Data Model, that allows centralized contextual analysis of your entire cloud estate. Together, Orca has created the most comprehensive cloud security platform available on the marketplace.

Thousands of fast-growing companies trust Vanta to help build, scale, manage and demonstrate their security and compliance programs and get ready for audits in weeks, not months. By offering the most in-demand security and privacy frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and many more, Vanta helps companies obtain the reports they need to accelerate growth, build efficient compliance processes, mitigate risks to their business, and build trust with external stakeholders. Simply connect your existing tools to Vanta, follow the prescribed guidance to fix gaps, and then work with a Vanta-vetted auditor to complete audit.

Runecast is an enterprise CNAPP platform that saves your Security and Operations teams time and resources by enabling a proactive approach to ITOM, CSPM, and compliance. It automates vulnerability assessment, configuration drift management and continuous compliance – for VMware, Cloud and Containers. By proactively using our agentless scanning in real-time admins discover potential risks and remediation solutions before any issues can develop into a major outage. It provides continuous audits against vendor best practices, common security standards, and frameworks such as BSI IT-Grundschutz, CIS, Cyber Essentials, DISA STIG, DORA, Essential 8, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, KVKK, NIST, PCI DSS, TISAX, VMware Security Hardening Guidelines, and the CISA KEVs catalog. Detect and assess risks and be fully compliant across your hybrid cloud in minutes. Runecast has been recognized with Frost & Sullivan's 2023 European New Product Innovation Award in the CNAPP industry.

One intelligent platform. Unprecedented speed. Infinite scale. Singularity™ enables unfettered visibility, industry-leading detection, and autonomous response. Discover the power of AI-powered, enterprise-wide cybersecurity. The world’s leading enterprises use the Singularity platform to prevent, detect, and respond to cyber attacks at machine-speed, greater scale, and higher accuracy across endpoint, cloud, and identity. SentinelOne delivers cutting-edge security with this platform by offering protection against malware, exploits, and scripts. SentinelOne cloud-based platform has been perfected to be innovative compliant with security industry standards, and high-performance whether the work environment is Windows, Mac or Linux. Thanks to constant updating, threat hunting, and behavior AI, the platform is ready for any threat.

CrowdStrike Falcon is a cloud-native cybersecurity platform that provides advanced protection against a wide range of cyber threats, including malware, ransomware, and sophisticated attacks. It leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to detect and respond to threats in real time, offering endpoint protection, threat intelligence, and incident response capabilities. The platform uses a lightweight agent that continuously monitors endpoints for signs of malicious activity, providing visibility and protection without significant impact on system performance. Falcon’s cloud-based architecture ensures fast updates, scalability, and rapid threat response across large, distributed environments. Its comprehensive security features help organizations prevent, detect, and mitigate potential cyber risks, making it a powerful tool for modern enterprise cybersecurity.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a solution for cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud workload protection (CWP) that finds weak spots across your cloud configuration, helps strengthen the overall security posture of your environment, and can protect workloads across multicloud and hybrid environments from evolving threats. Get a continuous assessment of the security of your cloud resources running in Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. Use built-in policies and prioritized recommendations that are aligned to key industry and regulatory standards or build custom requirements that meet your organization's needs. Use actionable insights to automate recommendations and help ensure that resources are configured securely and meet your compliance needs. Microsoft Defender for Cloud enables you to protect against evolving threats across multicloud and hybrid environments.

AWS Artifact is your go-to, central resource for compliance-related information that matters to you. It provides on-demand access to AWS’ security and compliance reports and select online agreements. Reports available in AWS Artifact include our Service Organization Control (SOC) reports, Payment Card Industry (PCI) reports, and certifications from accreditation bodies across geographies and compliance verticals that validate the implementation and operating effectiveness of AWS security controls. Agreements available in AWS Artifact include the Business Associate Addendum (BAA) and the Nondisclosure Agreement (NDA). Perform due-diligence of AWS with enhanced transparency into our security control environment. Continuously monitor the security and compliance of AWS with immediate access to new reports. Review, accept, and manage your agreements with AWS. Apply your AWS agreements to all current and future accounts within your organization.

The F5 Distributed Cloud Platform delivers improved functionality, advanced security controls, and more simplified operations than native services from cloud providers. A cloud-based platform that is purpose-built to support distributed applications across multi-cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. As applications evolve through microservices and increased dependencies on APIs, new highly distributed architectures are introducing greater complexities, costs, and increased risks. Multiple appliances, software, and connectivity services must be deployed and managed to deliver apps. Traditional CDNs and hub-spoke networks were not designed for immersive or large-scale SaaS apps. Services with different APIs, policies, and observability require investments in automation. Apps deployed across distributed environments are not equally protected. Difficult to align DevOps, NetOps, and SecOps across service provisioning and security using ticket-based workflows.

Cloud security best practices as a service. CloudSploit is the leading open source security configuration monitoring tool for cloud infrastructure. Cloud security experts from around the world collaborate to create a repository of tests for cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, GitHub, and Oracle Cloud.

Chef turns infrastructure into code. With Chef, you can automate how you build, deploy, and manage your infrastructure. Your infrastructure becomes as versionable, testable, and repeatable as application code. Chef Infrastructure Management ensures configurations are applied consistently in every environment with infrastructure management automation. Chef Compliance makes it easy to maintain and enforce compliance across the enterprise. Deliver successful application outcomes consistently at scale with Chef App Delivery. Chef Desktop allows IT teams to automate the deployment, management, and ongoing compliance of IT resources. Ensure configurations are applied consistently in every environment. Powerful policy-based configuration management system software. Runbook automation to consistently define, package & deliver applications. IT automation & DevOps dashboards for operational visibility.

Fidelis Halo is a unified, SaaS-based cloud security platform that automates cloud computing security controls and compliance across servers, containers, and IaaS in any public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environment. With over 20,000 pre-configured rules and more than 150 policy templates that cover standards such as PCI, CIS, HIPAA, SOC, and DISA STIGs for IaaS services, Halo’s extensive automation capabilities streamline and accelerate workflows between InfoSec and DevOps. The comprehensive, bi-directional Halo API, developer SDK, and toolkit automate your security and compliance controls into your DevOps toolchain to identify critical vulnerabilities so they can be remediated prior to production. The free edition of Halo Cloud Secure includes full access to the Halo Cloud Secure CSPM service for up to 10 cloud service accounts across any mix of AWS, Azure, and GCP, at no cost to you, ever. Sign up now and start your journey to fully automated cloud security!

Microsoft Purview is a unified data governance service that helps you manage and govern your on-premises, multicloud, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) data. Easily create a holistic, up-to-date map of your data landscape with automated data discovery, sensitive data classification, and end-to-end data lineage. Empower data consumers to find valuable, trustworthy data. Automated data discovery, lineage identification, and data classification across on-premises, multicloud, and SaaS sources. Unified map of your data assets and their relationships for more effective governance. Semantic search enables data discovery using business or technical terms. Insight into the location and movement of sensitive data across your hybrid data landscape. Establish the foundation for effective data usage and governance with Purview Data Map. Automate and manage metadata from hybrid sources. Classify data using built-in and custom classifiers and Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels.

Panoptica makes it easy to secure your containers, APIs, and serverless functions, and manage software bills of materials. It analyzes internal and external APIs and assigns risk scores. Your policies govern which API calls the gateway permits or disables. New cloud-native architectures allow teams to develop and deploy software more quickly, keeping up with the pace of today’s market. But this speed can come with a cost—security. Panoptica closes the gaps by integrating automated, policy-based security and visibility into every stage of the software-development lifecycle. Decentralized cloud-native architectures have significantly increased the number of attack surfaces. At the same time, changes in the computing landscape have raised the risk of catastrophic security breaches. Here are some of the reasons why comprehensive security is more important than ever before. You need a platform that protects the entire application lifecycle—from development to runtime.