Anomaly Detection and Behavioral Analytics for Cloud Container Environments
Detect, track and alert on anomalies and potential threats by focusing on user and application behavior and how it changes over time
VIEW SOLUTION BRIEFIdentify and Analyze Anomalies in Cloud and Container Environments
Public clouds enable enterprises to implement infrastructure-as-code and allows them to rapidly develop, test, and deploy services at scale. In this environment, network resources are in constant flux, providing ample opportunities for attackers. Unfortunately, legacy security solutions are ill-equipped to handle these and leave organizations vulnerable. IT security teams need solutions that leverage anomaly detection to safeguard cloud data.
Employ Big Data to Do Security
Traditional security solutions rely on signatures, or rule-based approaches, where rules are readily understandable – but the drawbacks are that these rules are manually entered and do not catch new attack profiles. To reduce false-positive rates, the rules are often written for very well-defined threat scenarios, limiting their effectiveness in production environments.
Lacework takes a completely different approach to anomaly detection. We collect high fidelity process, network, file, and user data to form a base model of normal infrastructure behavior. We then use sophisticated analytics and machine learning techniques to detect anomalies that may indicate threats. Our anomaly detection system is as adaptive as your environment is dynamic. In addition, because these baselines are generated automatically, we fine-tuned our solution to reduce false positives.
Use Lacework’s Polygraph to Bolster Security
Polygraph, our security foundation, and deep temporal baseline, is built from collecting machine, process, and user interactions. It detects anomalies, generates appropriate alerts, and provides a tool for users to investigate and triage issues.
This Polygraph technology dynamically develops a behavioral model of your services and infrastructure. Our model understands natural hierarchies including processes, containers, pods, and machines. It then develops behavioral models that Polygraph monitors in search of activities that fall outside the model’s parameters. In addition, the Polygraph continually updates its models in order to:
- Pinpoint exactly how a file changes.
- Investigate anomalous events and activities related to FIM signals.
- Provide cloud-wide capabilities for search, file type summaries, and detection of new files.
Get Integrated & Comprehensive Anomaly Detection
- Pinpoint exactly how a file changed: content, metadata, and whether the file was modified or simply appended
- Extended information on executables, such as files created without a package installation, command lines used at launch, currently running processes (with users and network activity), and suspect versions
- Expanded file intelligence with integrated threat feeds from ReversingLabs’ library of 5 billion files
- One-click investigation of anomalous events and activities related to FIM signals
- Cloud-wide capabilities for search, file type summaries, and detection of new files
Use Cloud-Scale & Speed to See More
- Automated configuration, file discovery, and operations
- Scalable architecture with no added complexity or performance penalties
- Anomaly detection included with all Lacework Cloud Security agents
Meet Your Compliance Mandates
- Protect log and configuration files against tampering
- Daily re-check of all monitored files
- Pre-defined directory maps monitor critical files and directories
- Easily configurable; users can add directories to the watch list
Detect and resolve anomalous changes in behavior across your workloads, containers, and IaaS accounts that represent a security risk or an IOC with Lacework’s comprehensive anomaly detection system for enterprise DevOps teams.
What Our Customers Say
- “My argument with InfoSec is always the same. If I take Lacework out, what’s the alternative? There isn’t one.”
Matthew Zeier
Wavefront - “Lacework Polygraph, within minutes of the attack occurring, was able to detect something that the other ones were not. It outperformed everything we’ve been doing.”
Mario Duarte
Snowflake Computing - “I’m extremely happy with Lacework. I sleep better at night knowing we have full visibility into our cloud operations. It was the one tool that checked all my security boxes.”
Devin Ertel
Guidebook - “Lacework offers us speed and offers us the ability to focus on what we do in terms of building a great product that’s secure. I would definitely recommend it to other IT professionals or product companies that are building a cloud-based application.”
Ian O’Brien
Arista Networks
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