Key Takeaways

• Prevention-first security delivers six transformative benefits that fundamentally change how organizations protect cloud environments.
• These benefits work together: eliminate exposure windows, reduce attack surface, lower costs, scale with consistency, provide compliance-ready evidence, and contain impact when incidents occur.
• Prevention isn't just cheaper - it's cleaner, faster, and safer. It reduces risk, ends alert fatigue, and frees teams to focus on strategic work rather than reactive remediation.
• These outcomes make prevention a strategic multiplier: reducing risk while simultaneously freeing capacity, ensuring consistency at scale, and improving team effectiveness.
• Prevention and detection work together as defense in depth: prevention handles predictable misconfigurations, detection catches sophisticated threats.