Alert Logic, the leading provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions, today
announced major updates to the industry's only Network Intrusion
Detection System
(NIDS) for containers. The release adds container log management and extends
capabilities beyond Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Microsoft Azure, on-premises
and hosted environments. Organizations gain a simplified, comprehensive picture
of their risk through improved visibility into any workload in any container,
as well as the ability to collect, aggregate and search container log data for
improved security and compliance.
According
to 451 Research Principal Analyst Jay Lyman, containers can enable faster
development cycles, increased resource efficiency, and application portability,
translating to a fast-growing market expected to top $4 billion by 2022.
"Nevertheless, security concerns and the difficulty of inspecting and
monitoring container network traffic are among impediments that cause some
organizations to delay their adoption of container technology."
Available
in Alert Logic Cloud Defender and Alert Logic Threat Manager solutions, these
expanded capabilities provide businesses with a single interface to manage the
security of all containers, track events and incidents, and gain unprecedented
visibility into their attack surface. Coverage includes real-time detection of
known and unknown exploits that target applications running in containers on
Docker, Kubernetes, Elastic Beanstalk, Docker Swarm, CoreOS, Azure Kubernetes
Service, Amazon Elastic Container Service, and Amazon Elastic Container Service
for Kubernetes. Because the new capabilities secure multi-cloud and
multi-platform environments, container security is easily portable
across platforms, allowing customers to take advantage of cost and operational
efficiencies.
"Running container
deployments without blind spots on AWS, Azure and on-premises is essential to
our business, to our client service, and for compliance requirements," said
Mike Santimaw, Rent-a-Center Vice President of Information Security, Innovation
Labs & Corporate Solutions. "Alert Logic's container security already provides
the real-time visibility we need on AWS, and we are excited for expanded
capabilities for Azure and on-prem."
"Our NIDS-based approach to container security,
combined with new container log management capabilities and integration across
an organization's total-and often complex-environment,
provides a more comprehensive view than other solutions available
today," said
Chris Noell, Senior Vice President, Engineering at Alert Logic. "Businesses
employ containers for ease and speed of deployment, yet struggle to maintain
consistent security as they move containers across cloud, hosted and on-prem
environments. Alert Logic solves this challenge by making security as portable
as your containers, without any lag or disruption to business operations."
Now organizations can
simplify their approach by leveraging one solution to protect all workloads and
to reduce complexity in multiple areas:
- Visualize which containers and hosts may be
compromised
- Examine associated metadata
- Explore remediation recommendations
- Support existing security policies and workflow
- Provide a holistic view of attacks
Alert Logic partner Claranet serves the IT needs of over 6,500 customers on
multi-cloud and hosted environments throughout Europe and Brazil. "Agility,
security, and compliance are required competencies for organizations operating
in today's world of hybrid and multi-cloud deployments," said Tanaz Gould, Consultancy Director, Claranet. "Containers are fast-becoming the de
facto deployment approach for many organizations. Alert Logic's new capability
to detect threats to containers in multiple environments will give confidence
to customers to move even more aggressively in adopting containers, supporting
the benefit of moving workloads from one environment to the next, all while
providing centralized visibility. This is a much-needed and important
innovation; we applaud Alert Logic for bringing it to market."
Products
+ Services Approach
The Alert Logic
container security solutions work by analyzing patterns in the data packets as
they traverse the container environment to detect cyberattacks in real-time and
provide a graphical representation of the compromised container and its relationships.
Alert Logic's approach to log management simplifies container
security by using the same container to collect logs and analyze network
traffic. The intrusion detection capabilities for containers are fully managed
by Alert Logic's 24x7 security and compliance experts in the company's Security Operations
Centers.
When a container threat is detected, Alert Logic's
security experts prioritize the threat, proactively escalate within 15-minutes,
provide visual context, and offer remediation advice for customers.
Visit Alert Logic's
container security page for more information on capabilities.