Secure Google Cloud Identities with Upwind’s Human Identity Management
Upwind’s support for Human Identity Management in Google Cloud gives you the ability to easily surface, understand and fix risky misconfigurations including over-privileged or excessive permissions, ensuring a more secure Google Cloud environment. Managing human identities in the cloud can be incredibly challenging for organizations, especially when they use multiple cloud providers or different identity […]
How Organizations Use Upwind’s File-Based Threat Monitoring
Upwind’s threat detection capabilities give you real-time protection against cloud attacks, including malicious file activities. Upwind’s lightweight, high-performance eBPF sensor goes beyond monitoring file activities to enrich that data with information about an event’s context and provide insights into the actions taken on the file, including read, write, and truncate (delete). You can leverage this […]
Monitor & Secure Cross-Account Roles with Upwind’s Non-Human Identity Security (NHI)
Upwind’s Non-Human Identity (NHI) Security streamlines your identity management and gives you the ability to easily view cross-account roles and their associated permissions. Cross-account roles are incredibly useful for organizations with multiple AWS accounts and permissions, but they can also be difficult to monitor and secure. Upwind helps solve this problem by providing increased visibility […]
Ensure Security for AWS EC2 Instances & Lambda Functions with Upwind’s Non-Human Identity Security
Using Upwind’s Non-Human Identity Security, you can easily monitor and secure AWS execution roles and ensure best practices for non-human identities (NHIs). Execution roles are important for granting permissions to AWS EC2 instances and AWS Lambda functions. However, it can be difficult to enforce best practices that allow only known resources to assume and use […]
Power Your Cloud Security with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Context
We are excited to introduce a new capability that enables you to bring-your-own version control system to the Upwind platform – which integrates rich context from pull requests and build-time activities directly into our cloud infrastructure security platform. Upwind offers unprecedented end-to-end visibility of your cloud infrastructure and applications, marrying intelligence from both build time and […]
Bake-In Cloud Security Compliance with the Upwind Posture Framework
Security practitioners are no strangers to posture security control frameworks, such as the Center for Internet Security (CIS), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the System and Organization Controls (SOC). Each framework is recognized as a standard for security posture compliance and serves as a structured guideline for securing information […]
Connect the Dots for Security Findings with Upwind’s Issue Stories
We are excited to announce the release of Upwind’s “Issue Stories” – a GenAI-based capability designed to address the challenge of connecting the dots between seemingly isolated security findings.
By providing a unified narrative that consolidates and contextualizes events Upwind has determined to be related, Issue Stories enhance the comprehensiveness of our existing Issue types (toxic combinations of threats, vulnerabilities, exposed secrets & posture misconfigurations).
Issue Stories act as incident summaries, consolidating detections, vulnerabilities, and SSH login activity. This unified perspective offers a deeper understanding of security events by detailing the sequence of events, their implications, and their impact within a single narrative. Attacks often begin with subtle reconnaissance actions that might be tagged as separate events. With Issue Stories, these events are contextualized as part of the full attack sequence, allowing for a clearer picture of how an incident unfolds.
Issue Stories transform security investigations by addressing alert fatigue, providing context, and enabling timely responses. By consolidating relevant data points into a clear narrative, Issue Stories allow teams to focus on the bigger picture and prioritize threats more effectively. They detail the sequence of events, including vulnerabilities, detections, and login activity, giving a deeper understanding of the “why” behind an event. This comprehensive view streamlines investigations, allowing for faster and more efficient threat responses.
“Upwind Issue Stories has drastically reduced triage and investigation time by correlating runtime detections with audit logs and giving us end-to-end visibility. Understanding who did what, how, and when, at a single glance has been a major game-changer”
Dobromir Kosev, Security Engineer, Yotpo
Beneficial not only to security teams but also to developers and DevOps engineers, Issue Stories bridge the gaps between these domains, surfacing and contextualizing all relevant issues. This unified narrative enhances collaboration and strengthens the overall security posture.
To learn more about Upwind’s Issue Stories and risk prioritization, visit the Upwind Documentation Center (login required) or schedule a demo.
Automatically Identify Abnormal Resource Behavior with Upwind’s Security Baselines
We are excited to announce a powerful new capability – the ability to view behavioral baselines for resources in your cloud environment, which we refer to as “security baselines.” The Upwind Cloud Security Platform continuously monitors your application’s behavior over hours, days and weeks to build baseline models of normal and abnormal activity. This deep, […]
Proactively Protect Your Kubernetes with Upwind’s Non-Human Identity Security
We recently announced the release of Upwind’s Identity Security, designed to provide real-time protection for human and non-human identities with a comprehensive Cloud Identity Entitlement Management (CIEM) offering. In this blog post, we will dive deeper into Upwind’s protection for non-human identities (NHI), which provide machine-to-machine access and authentication within your software environment and cloud […]
Prioritize & Eliminate Critical Risks with Upwind
Upwind brings a new approach that redefines the speed, visibility and actionability of cloud security, cutting 95% of alert noise to help you focus on your most critical risks.
The Upwind Cloud Security Platform gives you the ability to:
- Instantly identify critical risks
- Get to root causes 10x faster
- Stop attacks in real time
Accelerate productivity and empower your Dev, Security, and DevOps teams to innovate within a secure & efficient environment.
To learn more about the Upwind Cloud Security Platform, visit the Upwind Documentation Center (login required) or schedule a demo.
