Cloud security solutions are generally deployed and used to help protect workloads running in both private clouds and across the major public cloud services from cloud computing companies.
There are multiple types of cloud security solutions to help organization reduce risk and improve security. Among them are:
Cloud Workload Protection Platforms.
Cloud workload protection technologies work with both cloud infrastructure as well as virtual machines, providing monitoring and threat prevention features.
Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB).
Another category of cloud security solutions is often identified as Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) platforms, which monitor activity and enforces security polices from an access perspective.
SaaS
There are also a broad range of security tools and technologies that are delivered from the cloud, in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model to help protect both cloud as well as on-premises