Security

As organizations increasingly migrate to the cloud, the landscape of cybersecurity evolves, presenting new and complex challenges for security teams. The dynamic nature of cloud environments, coupled with the scale and sophistication of potential threats, demands a proactive and context-driven approach to threat detection. Traditional security measures often fall short, requiring security teams to adapt and develop strategies that can effectively identify, prioritize, and neutralize threats in the cloud. In this blog, we’ll review threat detection challenges in the cloud, and how Stream Security can help overcome these challenges.

Struggling with cloud security false positives? Learn how to overcome alert fatigue and focus on real threats by understanding the root causes of false alarms in dynamic cloud environments. Explore specific examples and discover how Stream Security can help you drastically reduce false positives and streamline your security response. Prioritize real risks and improve your cloud security posture today.

Cloud Application Detection and Response (CADR) is an emerging approach to cloud security that offers real-time protection and response capabilities. Crucially, CADR is designed specifically for Security Operations (SecOps) teams, setting it apart from other cloud security frameworks. To understand its significance, we need to examine its core components and how they compare to existing solutions, particularly the Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) framework.

The complexity and pace of cloud environments result in constant changes that are difficult to monitor and secure. Security teams are inundated with alerts, each requiring thorough investigation to determine if it represents a real threat. This constant vigilance can lead to resource overload, missed threats, and delayed responses. Here’s why CDR is indispensable:

Discover how Amazon Detective enhances security investigations by analyzing AWS log data. This guide covers its features, including interactive visualizations and continuous monitoring, to help detect threats and understand security incidents.

In the ongoing battle between cyber adversaries and defenders, the odds are often stacked against the guardians of digital assets. Defenders face a challenging task – they must secure their systems 100% of the time, while adversaries need only find one vulnerability to breach their defenses. This inherent imbalance presents a significant challenge to the cybersecurity community, where constant vigilance is necessary.

In the realm of cybersecurity, the escalation of threats, especially in cloud environments, demands robust and adaptive strategies for threat detection and response. The MITRE ATT&CK framework, a globally-accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world observations, offers a structured approach to understanding and tackling security threats. This article delves into the utilization of the MITRE ATT&CK framework for enhancing cloud threat detection.

Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that uses machine learning and other techniques to identify malicious activity and unauthorized behavior in your AWS accounts and workloads. It integrates with other AWS security services to provide a comprehensive view of your security posture and helps Security, DevOps, Compliance and Incident response teams to quickly respond to security threats.

The Security pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework is focused on ensuring that workloads are designed, deployed, and managed in a secure manner. It includes implementing security best practices, such as protecting data confidentiality, integrity, and availability, managing user access and privileges, and implementing network and application-level security controls.

Amazon GuardDuty serves as a threat detection solution that employs machine learning and various methodologies to detect malevolent activities and unauthorized conduct within your AWS accounts and workloads.

Strengthening Your Cloud Infrastructure: A Deep Dive into the AWS Well-Architected Framework's Security Pillar

IAM roles for service accounts provide a secure and efficient way to manage access to cloud resources in a cloud environment. By assigning roles to service accounts instead of individual users, organizations can improve their security posture by minimizing the risk of human error or credential misuse.

Understanding CNAPP and the Market Shift Towards It

IAM plays a crucial role in securing access to resources in an AWS EKS cluster, therefor it’s important to have a strong understanding of IAM (Identity and Access Management) to effectively troubleshoot any issues that may arise.

Cloud Investigation and Response Automation (CIRA) - CIRA vs CDR

Deploying Sysdig Falco on an Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) cluster

Breaking down the CTEM (Continuous Threat Exposure Management)

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Manage (CIEM) solutions automate the process of managing user entitlements and privileges in cloud environments.

Traditional security measures, such as periodic scans, have become increasingly inadequate in ensuring the safety and integrity of cloud environments. The cloud's rapidly evolving and dynamic nature necessitates a more practical approach: real-time change impact analysis. In this article, we will explore the limitations of periodic scans for cloud security and delve into the benefits of real-time change impact analysis as a superior alternative.

The shift to the cloud has brought new challenges in securing environments, with traditional static rules and static graph algorithms-based approaches to security falling short. In this article, we will explore why static rules and static graph algorithms are no longer sufficient, and why dynamic graph algorithms present a better solution for cloud security management (CSPM, CIEM, and KSPM)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Macie, a fully managed sensitive data scanner designed to detect and protect sensitive information in the cloud. This article takes a closer look at AWS Macie, its features, benefits, and how it can help safeguard your organization's sensitive data.

What is a Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP)?

AWS Inspector is a fully managed, automated security assessment service that enables you to improve the security and compliance of your applications deployed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. It analyzes your EC2 instances and identifies potential security vulnerabilities, deviations from best practices, and exposure to common attack vectors. With AWS Inspector, you gain valuable insights to help you mitigate risks and build more secure applications.

Stream.Security offers a solution that supercharges SecOps by providing real-time visibility and change impact analysis, enabling organizations to respond quickly and effectively to emerging threats. The core value of Stream Security lies in its ability to adapt and scale with evolving cloud environments, delivering real-time analysis, and facilitating faster troubleshooting and response times.

AWS Config is a service that delivers an all-encompassing perspective on your AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and change alerts, facilitating security and governance.