Cloud Workload Protection
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Comprehensive Cloud Workload Protection
Cloud workload protection refers to the practice of securing and safeguarding applications and data running on cloud computing platforms, including public, private, and hybrid cloud environments, by continuously monitoring for and mitigating cyber threats against these “cloud workloads” across different cloud services; essentially, it’s a way to protect the critical functions and information within your cloud infrastructure from attacks.
- Focus on workloads:
Unlike traditional endpoint security, cloud workload protection focuses specifically on the security of individual workloads, which can be virtual machines, containers, or serverless functions within the cloud.
- Multi-cloud support:
Cloud workload protection solutions are designed to work across multiple cloud providers, allowing for consistent security across different cloud environments.
- Continuous monitoring:
These solutions constantly monitor cloud workloads for suspicious activity, vulnerabilities, and potential threats to detect and respond to attacks in real-time.
- Key security features:
- Vulnerability scanning: Identifying potential weaknesses in the cloud workload configuration and software.
- Runtime protection: Monitoring running processes for malicious behavior.
- Intrusion detection: Detecting attempts to access or compromise cloud workloads.
- Incident response automation: Automatically taking actions to contain and remediate security incidents.
- Vulnerability scanning: Identifying potential weaknesses in the cloud workload configuration and software.
Khader Mohammed
Cybersecurity Partner
Why Choose Cloud Workload Protection
- Proactive defense against emerging threats.
- Tailored solutions that align with your goals and industry.
- Increased organizational resilience and readiness.
- Support for achieving and maintaining regulatory compliance.
Our Cloud Workload Protection Process
Cloud-specific workload protection. In traditional data centers, EDR primarily focuses on physical and virtual endpoints and servers. In the cloud, workloads can be VMs, containers or serverless, meaning attack surfaces and patterns differ from traditional on-premises infrastructure models.
Understanding Your Security Needs and Goals
A cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) is a cloud security solution that helps protect cloud workloads in multicloud and hybrid environments
Uncovering Gaps and Vulnerabilities
Why is CWP Important?
Cloud adoption remains a key driver for digital transformation and growth for today’s businesses, helping them deliver applications and services to customers with the speed and scalability that only the cloud can provide. However, protecting the cloud means securing an increasingly large attack surface that ranges from cloud workloads to the virtual servers and other technologies that underpin your cloud environment.
Cloud workload protection is important because it offers breach protection for workloads, containers, and Kubernetes while enabling organizations to continue to build, run, and secure cloud applications with speed and confidence.
Crafting a Tailored Security Strategy
Cloud computing requires security measures from customers and providers alike since public cloud deployments operate under a shared security model. Both the cloud computing provider and the customer have a responsibility to ensure the security within their area of control.
In general, the provider is responsible for security of the cloud. That includes physical access and infrastructure.
In turn, the customer is responsible for security in the cloud. That includes their applications, identity management, data and encryption. The unique characteristics and capabilities of the cloud introduce new security challenges for customers as they migrate their workloads:
1. Expanded Attack Surface
Having more systems and instances distributed to various off-premises locations means more risk and an expanded attack surface. It is no longer just about protecting physical data centers and servers. Having a cloud presence means the additional responsibility of securing virtual servers, remote applications, cloud workloads, containers and the network communications between the environments. There is also the issue of having more users with different levels of security expertise but the same ability to create and use cloud workloads.
2. Visibility
Blind spots lead to silent failure and ultimately breaches. Cloud workloads are challenging in terms of visibility for a number of reasons. First, traditional security tools are not designed to provide granular visibility. For example, tools such as Linux logs make it difficult to uniquely identify events generated by containers versus those generated by the host, since visibility is limited to the host. Then, containers present additional visibility challenges because they are short-lived, making data collection and incident investigation difficult because forensic evidence is lost when a container is terminated. And, container portability creates even more challenges — deployment across cloud environments results in decentralized container controls that limit overall visibility.
3. Performance
Because of the dynamic nature of cloud workloads, and specifically containers, traditional solutions and manual processes no longer suffice. Rapid deployment and scaling mean the attack surface is constantly changing, and security solutions need to match the speed of DevOps without sacrificing performance.
Implementing Solutions for Stronger Protection
Key Requirements of Cloud Workload Protection Platform
With the above challenges in mind, it is imperative that cloud workload security solutions deliver in these key areas:
Runtime Protection
Image scanning, while important, is blind to attacks. Vulnerabilities can be exploited before they can be patched. Misconfigurations can happen. Once a virtual machine or container is launched, even if the image is configured properly and verified, it can be compromised. Comprehensive runtime protection is required to secure containers and the hosts they run on.
Visibility
You can’t detect, stop or respond to something if you can’t see it. Workload events, including container events, need to be captured, analyzed and stored so that security products and teams alike have the visibility they need to detect and stop threats as they happen, as well as to hunt and investigate.
Simplicity and Performance
Companies need to address the security requirements of the cloud without increasing the number of products they deploy and manage. Ideally, companies could use the same platform for their on-premises and public, private and hybrid cloud needs to help provide consistent, low-impact security without adding complexity.
With cloud workloads, it is even more important for a solution to deliver protection while having minimal performance impact on systems, teams and workflows. DevOps requires speed, and delays and inconvenience can lead to hazardous behaviors, from weak passwords to the use of untrusted images.
Ensuring Continuous Security Improvement
StonyPoint sets the new standard in cloud workload protection by bringing the award-winning breach protection capabilities to cloud workloads, including virtualized workloads and containers in private, public and hybrid clouds. Our Solution unifies and simplifies cloud workload security with one platform for all workloads.
Runtime protection for cloud workloads and containers: Our Solution platform combines the best and latest technologies to protect cloud workloads and containers against known and unknown malware and sophisticated attacks.
EDR for cloud workloads and containers: Our solution platform offers full endpoint detection and response (EDR) for cloud workloads and containers, providing continuous and comprehensive visibility to enable proactive threat hunting and forensic investigation. You can distinguish activity within a container from activity on a host, and view event details and a full set of enriched data, even for ephemeral and decommissioned workloads.
Performance: Our solution platform secures workloads at the speed of DevOps, providing immediate protection and adapting to the dynamic scalability of containers in real time without sacrificing performance. A single agent secures the host and containers and automatically applies protection as they spin up and then scales as they expand.
Simplicity: The solution platform was built in the cloud for the cloud. One platform secures all workloads, wherever they run, without added complexity and overhead. One console provides central visibility over cloud workloads, regardless of their location.
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