Think you know what you’ve got in the cloud? Think again.
The accessibility of the public cloud is a double-edged sword: while it enables teams to spin up new resources in minutes, it also makes it hard for IT teams to keep track of everything that needs to be secured.
Take control of your cloud security with a free inventory assessment and security check, powered by Sophos Cloud Optix. Activate a free trial to get to get 30 days commitment-free usage:
Sophos Cloud Optix is an advanced Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) security platform that delivers continuous security and spends monitoring across multiple public cloud environments. Take control of your cloud security with a free inventory assessment and security check, powered by Sophos Cloud Optix. Activate a free trial to get to get 30 days commitment-free usage: Comprehensive inventory of everything you’ve got in the cloud: virtual machines, storage, containers, IAM Users etc. Sophos Cloud Security Posture Management Easily identify cloud resource vulnerabilities, ensure compliance, and respond to threats faster. Asset and network traffic visibility for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Risk-based prioritization of security issues with guided remediation.
- Comprehensive inventory of everything you’ve got in the cloud: virtual machines, storage, containers, IAM Users etc.
- Covers Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes clusters, and Infrastructure-as-Code environments
- Automatically scans for security gaps so you can address areas of weakness
- No agent, no install, no tie-in
Detect and prevent cloud security and compliance gaps
Cloud Optix is an agentless SaaS solution that integrates with your cloud infrastructure accounts using the native cloud provider APIs, logs, and cloud services.
It uses information from these sources to give you a detailed inventory of assets in your cloud accounts and provide an intuitive topological view of the environment’s architecture and traffic flows.
Cloud Optix also provides up-to-the-minute reports. These make it easy to stay in compliance with both regulatory requirements and internal security policies, including monitoring your daily spend.
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Get up and running in minutes
Cloud Optix is managed through the Sophos Central security platform. There are two ways to activate your free usage period:
- Already using Sophos Central: Click on the Free Trials link at the bottom of the left-hand menu in your Central admin console.
- New to Sophos Central: Request a free trial via our website. Your trial will give you access to Cloud Optix as well as all the other security services available in Sophos Central (endpoint protection, server protection etc.).
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Next, follow the on-screen step-by-step instructions that will walk you through adding your AWS, Azure and GCP environments. For more information, read the Getting Started guide.
Should you need help at any point, check out the community forum or reach out to our technical support team.
What happens when the trial period is over?
If you wish to continue using Cloud Optix at the end of the free usage period, simply purchase a subscription. Otherwise, you can just stop using the service. There’s no tie-in, no catch, no obligation. Mac os catalina not updating.
by Joe Panettieri • Jul 27, 2020
Sophos Intercept X for Server Advanced with EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) has gained new multi-cloud security monitoring features to help partners and customers safeguard Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) workloads.
The effort leverages Sophos Cloud Optix, a public cloud visibility and threat response service that allows partners and customers to “detect, respond, and prevent” cloud security and compliance gaps, the company asserts.
The new Sophos offering empowers partners for fast-growing Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) opportunities.
The thesis: Nearly all successful attacks on cloud services are the result of customer misconfiguration, mismanagement and mistakes, Gartner asserts. With those risks in mind, MSPs and MSSPs can leverage CSPM tools to help ensure customers correctly configure public cloud IaaS and PaaS services and mitigate cloud risks. CSPM security tools typically offer such capabilities as compliance monitoring, DevOps integration, incident response, risk assessment, and risk visualization, Fugue notes.
Sophos Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
In the case of Sophos, the company offers a management console that allows partners and customers to “dive directly into assets to get more detail about your asset inventory and cloud security posture.”
Key capabilities, the company says, include:
- Cloud asset inventory – spanning cloud infrastructure such as cloud hosts, serverless functions, S3 buckets, databases, and cloud workloads.
- Access and traffic anomaly detection – unusual login attempts and suspicious traffic patterns are detected and blocked or flagged to the admin as appropriate.
- Security scans – daily and on-demand scans monitor, detect and automatically resolve issues where possible, with admin notification if manual intervention is required.
- Configuration guardrails – stop accidental or malicious tampering with configurations that could negatively impact security posture
- Compliance policies – ensures that a cloud environment conforms to Center for Internet Security (CIS) best practices.
- Alert management integrations – receive email notifications when manual intervention is required.
Sophos CSPM: More Details.
The new capabilities are available with all Intercept X Advanced for Server with EDR customers at no additional cost.
Current customers using Sophos Central that would like to try out this new functionality – in addition to the recently released EDR IT operations and threat hunting capabilities – can start a trial from within the Sophos Central console, the company says.
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