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
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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
Cisco Secure Firewall on AWS: Build resilience at scale with stateful firewall clustering
Organizations embrace the public cloud for the agility, scalability, and reliability it offers when running applications. But just as organizations need these capabilities to ensure their applications operate where needed and as needed, they also require their security does the same. Organizations may introduce multiple individual firewalls into their AWS infrastructure to … [Read more...] about Cisco Secure Firewall on AWS: Build resilience at scale with stateful firewall clustering
Driving Innovation Aligned with AWS Security Competency Re-launch
Logz.io recently obtained the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency for our Cloud SIEM. We are thrilled to support the re-launch of the AWS Security Competency, as clearly the only way to combat today’s cybersecurity challenges is to modernize your analytics platform to respond to today’s evolving threat landscape.To that end, Logz.io continues to build capabilities … [Read more...] about Driving Innovation Aligned with AWS Security Competency Re-launch
Cisco and AWS: Securing your resilience in a hybrid cloud world
We’ve all seen the headlines like “race to the cloud” and “cloud-first.” These articles and publications are true, more and more customers have adopted cloud strategies, but there is more to the story. In these customer conversations, cloud security and network security are often discussed in unison. Why is that? Customers desire freedom and choice when establishing … [Read more...] about Cisco and AWS: Securing your resilience in a hybrid cloud world
CrowdStrike at AWS re:Inforce 2022
For two days in July, Boston will be the epicenter of innovation in the world of cloud security — and we’re excited to see you there in person! As a proud sponsor of AWS re:Inforce 2022 (July 26-27), CrowdStrike is coming to town to meet with customers, partners and prospects to show how we’re protecting cloud environments against increasing adversary attacks. Adversary … [Read more...] about CrowdStrike at AWS re:Inforce 2022
Introduction to Logz.io’s Integration with AWS Kinesis
After creating your Logz.io account, the first step for onboarding is to send you log, metric, and trace data. Logz.io makes this flexible – allowing for multiple ways to get data into your Logz.io account depending on your use case and technology stack. Today, we’re excited to announce another easy and fast way to get AWS metric data into Logz.io: by setting up a CloudWatch … [Read more...] about Introduction to Logz.io’s Integration with AWS Kinesis