Cloud adoption has become an integral part of modern organizations. From small startups to large enterprises, everyone is shifting workloads to the cloud to gain flexibility, scalability, and cost efficiency. But as cloud usage grows, so does the complexity of managing security across multiple accounts, providers, and services.
One of the biggest challenges today is not just responding to threats but maintaining continuous visibility into cloud risk posture. Organizations often ask: How secure is my cloud environment right now? Are we improving or falling behind in our security hygiene?
To address this, Saner Cloud introduces the Cloud Cyber Hygiene Score (CCHS) — a simple yet powerful framework that helps organizations assess, monitor, and improve their cloud security hygiene.
What is Cloud Cyber Hygiene Score (CCHS)?
Think of CCHS as a health check for your cloud environment. Just like your body’s health can be measured through indicators such as blood pressure or cholesterol levels, your cloud’s security health can be measured through CCHS.
The scoring framework is designed to give security teams a clear, measurable, and real-time understanding of their cloud posture. Instead of digging through endless logs, reports, or alerts, CCHS provides a single, consolidated score that reflects the overall hygiene of your cloud infrastructure.
The scoring system has three main components:
- Raw Score – This is the base score that reflects the hygiene of your resources before applying any external benchmarks. It helps organizations see the true state of their environment.
- Global Score – This compares your security hygiene with global standards and industry benchmarks. It shows whether your organization is ahead or behind peers in terms of cloud security posture.
- Local Score – This reflects account-level or region-level hygiene. It gives a more localized view of risks so that individual teams can act where it matters most.
By combining these three dimensions, organizations get both a big-picture view and detailed insights into their cloud security posture.
Where Can You Access CCHS?
Saner Cloud makes it easy to get started with the Cyber Hygiene Score. Users can access CHS from:
- Organization-Level Dashboard – This is the CNAPP Infra (organization) view, where you can track the overall posture of your entire cloud infrastructure. It allows you to compare hygiene across accounts, regions, and providers.
- Account-Level Dashboard – This gives a more detailed breakdown at the account level. You can drill down into:
- Score distribution
- Module-wise risk breakdowns
- Key issues affecting your score
- Resource-level insights
This layered approach ensures that leadership can see the overall posture, while operations teams can focus on specific, actionable risks.
Why Does Cloud Cyber Hygiene Score Matter?
For many organizations, managing cloud security is overwhelming. There are often thousands of resources spread across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or private clouds. Manually assessing risks in such a complex environment is nearly impossible.
CCHS simplifies this by:
- Providing clarity – Security teams don’t have to guess where risks are; the score tells them.
- Driving accountability – Different teams managing different accounts can now measure their hygiene and compare performance.
- Prioritizing risks – Instead of fixing every small issue, CCHS helps you identify the most critical resources or regions that need attention.
- Measuring progress – By tracking scores over time, organizations can see whether their cloud security posture is improving or deteriorating.
In short, CCHS transforms raw security data into meaningful insights that drive better decision-making.
Benefits of Using Cloud Cyber Hygiene Score
- Single Pane of Glass for Cloud Security
No more juggling multiple dashboards or reports. With CCHS, everything is consolidated into one intuitive score. - Benchmarking Against Global Standards
The Global Score allows organizations to compare their posture against industry peers, ensuring compliance and competitiveness. - Improved Accountability Across Teams
Local Scores empower account-level teams to take ownership of their cloud hygiene. Leaders can hold teams accountable using objective metrics. - Smarter Risk Prioritization
Instead of drowning in alerts, organizations can focus on the issues that have the biggest impact on hygiene. - Continuous Monitoring
Hygiene scores update dynamically, offering real-time visibility rather than static reports. - Better Decision Making for Leadership
Executives and CISOs can quickly grasp the overall cloud posture, making it easier to allocate budgets, prioritize resources, and plan strategies.
Final Thoughts
Cloud environments are vast, complex, and ever-changing. Without a structured way to measure and track hygiene, organizations risk falling behind on security, leaving themselves vulnerable to breaches and compliance failures.
Saner Cloud’s Cloud Cyber Hygiene Score (CCHS) offers a practical, easy-to-understand, and actionable solution. By consolidating risks into a single score and offering detailed breakdowns, it bridges the gap between leadership and technical teams.
Whether you want to track your overall security posture, benchmark against industry standards, or hold teams accountable, CCHS provides the clarity and insights you need.
It’s more than just a number; it’s a compass for navigating cloud security.