Data collection: Agentless and agent approach

A combined agentless and agent-based approach provides the visibility needed to have maximum security for cloud accounts and systems.

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Solving Challenges

Agentless and Agent: a more perfect union

The simplicity of an agentless approach and the visibility of a directly deployed agent. Only this combination will show you the big picture.

Traditional agents slowing you down?

Save valuable time and space with a modern “un”agent that takes a few minutes to set up and provides enhanced visibility with minimal overhead.

Weak cloud security posture management?

Up your CSPM game with an agentless approach that uses APIs to pull data from your cloud service providers, reducing risk throughout the software development lifecycle.

Gaps in coverage and visibility?

An agentless solution detects attacks and misconfigurations in your cloud accounts, while an agent-based approach monitors your systems for threats and vulnerabilities.

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Agentless and Agents: Protect your cloud with a layered strategy

Protecting your cloud is only effective when you combine security and insights across multiple layers. Read the white paper to learn the benefits of combining agentless and agents in your cloud security.

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Benefits

The power of two

With our combined agentless and agent-based solution, you get flexible yet continuous coverage across your cloud accounts and systems.

From clunky solutions to lightweight agents

Created to meet the needs of today’s organizations, our agent provides quick time to value and requires minimal CPU and memory bandwidth.
From sporadic checks to constant analysis

Continually collect data to assess configurations, vulnerabilities, and threats across accounts and workloads by using agentless and agent-based solutions.
From coverage gaps to complete visibility

With a combined approach, have greater visibility into your cloud assets, their connections, and their security posture, from build time through run time.

Our Approach

Simultaneous visibility into cloud accounts and systems

An easy-to-deploy layered approach provides quick time to value. Get the coverage you need with just the right amount of actionable data, whatever your environment or use case.

Gain insight into your cloud accounts

Our agentless approach provides:

Coverage for AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
Continuous monitoring of cloud configuration.
Cloud compliance and best practice checks.
Runtime threat defense.
Container vulnerability assessment.
Resource management and discovery.

Understand what’s happening on your systems

With our agent, you receive:

Host intrusion detection (HIDS).
File integrity monitoring (FIM).
User, application, and process behavior monitoring.
Network anomaly detection.
Kubernetes, containers, and workloads security.
Host vulnerability assessment.

Answer questions across your environments

Our combined approach tells you:

What services your cloud account is accessing, and who is accessing them.
What configurations have been deployed, and if they’re compliant.
What your system is running, what it’s talking to, and who’s accessing what.
What vulnerabilities exist, and if the packages are active.
What behaviors are different compared to your standard.

“Because Lacework combines agent-based and agentless approaches, we didn’t have to rely on snapshots which miss important activity and information. Instead, we were able to not only detect vulnerabilities, but also continuously watch for exploit activity in runtime, saving us a lot of stress and allowing us to get a handle on the issue really quickly.”

David Ting Chief Information Security Officer, Nylas

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