The Ultimate Cloud Security Checklist from Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks offers a comprehensive, actionable framework for securing cloud environments. It emphasizes identity and access hygiene, data classification, runtime and network protection, CI/CD pipeline integrity, and AI risk governance. Key practices include automating policy enforcement, continuous exposure management, behavioral anomaly detection, and using policy-as-code. Success is measured through metrics like audit readiness, threat response time, and asset visibility. The checklist aligns cloud security operations with business risk, enabling resilient, scalable, and responsive defenses.

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