What a fantastic week at Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2023! As a Diamond sponsor, we thoroughly enjoyed supporting our partner AWS at this flagship event and conversing with so many individuals from around the world who are interested in Elastic®.On the heels of the event and with the holiday season upon us, we thought now would be a great time to share a blog post … [Read more...] about That’s a wrap! Looking back on the Elastic and AWS collaboration in 2023
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Threat Actors Can Leverage AWS STS to Infiltrate Cloud Accounts
Dec 06, 2023NewsroomAccess Management / Cloud Security Threat actors can take advantage of Amazon Web Services Security Token Service (AWS STS) as a way to infiltrate cloud accounts and conduct follow-on attacks. The service enables threat actors to impersonate user identities and roles in cloud environments, Red Canary researchers Thomas Gardner and Cody Betsworth said in a … [Read more...] about Threat Actors Can Leverage AWS STS to Infiltrate Cloud Accounts
CrowdStrike Demonstrates Cloud Security Leadership at AWS re:Invent
CrowdStrike is honored to be named Partner of the Year for several 2023 Geo and Global AWS Partner Awards at Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2023, where we are participating this year as a Diamond Sponsor. We are also proud to be a launch partner for AWS Built-in and achieve two AWS competencies. These accomplishments demonstrate our forward-thinking approach to cloud security … [Read more...] about CrowdStrike Demonstrates Cloud Security Leadership at AWS re:Invent
Falcon and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)
As organizations increasingly deploy business-critical workloads to managed cloud services, enforcing strong security practices needs to be a top priority. While many managed cloud service providers do a good job of protecting the cloud and infrastructure itself, it’s the responsibility of the customer to protect what’s running inside the cloud. This is commonly known as the … [Read more...] about Falcon and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)
Secure your Elastic Cloud deployment with AWS PrivateLink traffic filter
Traffic filters consist of rule(s) that specify the source of traffic, such as IP/CIDR or AWS VPC endpoint, and rule sets, which are a set of traffic filter rules. Rule sets are then associated with the deployment and can restrict access to the deployment based on those rules.By default, customers connect to deployment over the public internet. Customers can assign multiple … [Read more...] about Secure your Elastic Cloud deployment with AWS PrivateLink traffic filter
New AMBERSQUID Cryptojacking Operation Targets Uncommon AWS Services
Sep 18, 2023THNCloud Security / Cryptocurrecy A novel cloud-native cryptojacking operation has set its eyes on uncommon Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings such as AWS Amplify, AWS Fargate, and Amazon SageMaker to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. The malicious cyber activity has been codenamed AMBERSQUID by cloud and container security firm Sysdig. "The AMBERSQUID operation was … [Read more...] about New AMBERSQUID Cryptojacking Operation Targets Uncommon AWS Services
Using the Elastic Agent to monitor Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate with Elastic Observability
Serverless and AWS ECS FargateAWS Fargate is a serverless pay-as-you-go engine used for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) to run Docker containers without having to manage servers or clusters. The goal of Fargate is to containerize your application and specify the OS, CPU and memory, networking, and IAM policies needed for launch. Additionally, AWS Fargate can be used with … [Read more...] about Using the Elastic Agent to monitor Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate with Elastic Observability
Guide to AWS Monitoring with Prometheus and Logz.io
Prometheus is a widely utilized time-series database for monitoring the health and performance of AWS infrastructure. With its ecosystem of data collection, storage, alerting, and analysis capabilities, among others, the open source tool set offers a complete package of monitoring solutions. Prometheus is ideal for scraping metrics from cloud-native services, storing the data … [Read more...] about Guide to AWS Monitoring with Prometheus and Logz.io
Elastic joins AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights to streamline risk assessment and software procurement
Vendor Insights can help you reduce assessment lead time by allowing you to access a vendor’s validated security profile. It can lower the effort of questionnaire population via back-and-forth with vendors from months to hours.Use the Vendor Insights dashboard to reduce assessment timeVendor Insights can ease your procurement process by reducing your assessment time via a … [Read more...] about Elastic joins AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights to streamline risk assessment and software procurement
Analyze your application’s AWS service metrics with Elastic Observability
The transition to distributed applications is in full swing, driven mainly by our need to be “always-on” as consumers and fast-paced businesses. That need is driving deployments to have more complex requirements along with the ability to be globally diverse and rapidly innovate.Cloud is becoming the de facto deployment option for today’s applications. Many cloud deployments … [Read more...] about Analyze your application’s AWS service metrics with Elastic Observability