Radware extends cloud protection, adds multi-cloud support
Radware has enhanced its Cloud Workload Protection Service (CWP) to a full-suite of visibility, compliance and reporting features, coupled with enhancements to its attack detection engine.
Its compliance engine has been extended to support multi-cloud environments.
The engine compares an organisation's cloud security posture against multiple industry compliance standards, including: PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIST CSF, SOC2, CIS AWS/Azure Foundation Benchmark.
The service includes a new security posture dashboard that provides visibility into both the overall cloud risks associated with workloads hosted on both AWS and Azure and the organisation's cloud security posture.
This dashboard provides a detailed view of security risks across multiple accounts, regions, and public cloud vendors.
Radware has improved its attack detection engine to detect cloud native attack vectors and added a new attack simulation tool.
The attack simulation tool allows organisations to test their public cloud environments, harden security posture and improve their security teams' readiness using simulated attacks based on real-life cloud data breach events.
The result is an end-to-end CSPM solution for identifying security risks, unintended public exposure, excessive permissions, and compliance breaches as well as detecting breach attempts and automatically remediating threats.
"As companies increasingly turn to public cloud environments, they need unprecedented visibility into their environment that is based on real risk analysis. Too often, organisations use tools that struggle to distinguish between suspicious activity performed by legitimate entities and malicious activity conducted by threat actors," says Radware chief technology officer David Aviv.
"Radware's Cloud Workload Protection Service helps organisations to identify both scenarios by providing meaningful threat intelligence and advanced analytics with an unmatched ability to identify attack-kill-chain.
Ad-tech company Perion's employees manage multiple AWS instances and use Radware for additional security visibility.
"We recently conducted a trial run with a cybersecurity startup that was quickly growing its customer base after receiving a large investment from a venture capital firm," says Perion security analytics vice president Nissim Pariente.
"During the proof-of-concept period, we discovered that many of the identified public exposures were actually false positives, often reported by the company's partners. Additionally, we discovered that nearly every employee in the organisation's cloud environment had admin privileges. With CWP, this company was able to optimise permissions to the right level of access, with a level of granularity and control that was much appreciated by executives.
Radware's CWP has also helped companies to monitor workloads and maintain productivity, as their workforce transitioned to remote and work-from-home arrangements, working closely with one particular client to monitor remote worker engagement and optimise permissions that align with the principle of least privilege.
