Cloud doesn’t mean secure: How Intruder finds what others miss
A cloud security platform that manages the attack surface and security vulnerabilities in AWS
SPONSORED POST You’d be naïve to believe that the cloud is secure by default, and while most hosting services provide basic defenses, it’s not always clear what level of protection these provide.
Weak identity and access controls, inadequate encryption, insecure application programming interfaces (APIs), application and service misconfigurations, denial of service (DoS) attacks and insider threats – they can all lead to sensitive information stored in the cloud being lost or stolen.
The results of Dark Reading’s 2024 Strategic Security Survey indicate most enterprise IT and security managers are painfully aware of the problem. Almost half (49.6 percent) of those taking part reported they were worried about exploits targeting cloud service providers and a similar number (47.8 percent) expressed themselves wary about cloud services breaches and intrusions.
Additional defenses can provide some peace of mind though, which is what Intruder’s Cloud Security provides with its agentless cloud security scans. Intruder combines external vulnerability scanning with info from AWS accounts to find risks that other solutions might overlook, integrating with AWS to continuously find misconfigurations, insecure permissions and exposed secrets.
Those can include missing security controls and overly permissive privileges, IAM roles and access for example, as well as hardcoded keys, S3 buckets and other resources that could be exposed to the Internet. The platform also verifies encryption and backups to help ensure critical data is protected.
Intruder provides step by step remediation guidance to help companies quickly reconfigure those cloud accounts to mitigate the risks. It was designed to be user friendly and easy to use, with a simple pricing structure that helps customers understand what they are spending with no surprise charges further down the line.
For the moment Intruder’s cloud security scans are available for AWS environments, with support for Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and other services using Kubernetes is coming later this year.
But even the best vulnerability checks won’t help if you don’t know what assets you have, especially in cloud environments where developers can spin up new services at any moment.
Intruder’s cloud sync automatically detects new assets as they are created, with the option to initiate scans immediately. It also supports custom rules for controlling which assets are added, and allows platform-native tags to be converted into Intruder tags for easier management. Cloud sync is available for Cloudflare, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
Intruder combines cloud security with vulnerability management and attack surface management in a single platform, incorporating its signature noise reduction to help businesses focus on the most important risks.
You can learn more and try a free 14 day trial of Intruder by clicking on this link.
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