We are excited to announce a powerful new capability in the Upwind platform – enhancing security and operational efficiency by allowing you to easily visualize specific S3 buckets that resources are communicating with in the Upwind Topology Map.
Upwind previously provided the ability to discover the specific S3 buckets that your assets are communicating with, enabling better understanding of attack paths, communication to sensitive data sources and asset distribution – viewable when drilling down into a specific resource overview. With this new update, you can now visualize these S3 bucket communications directly on the Upwind Topology Map, making it even easier to track interactions and potential risks such as data exfiltration, misconfigurations, and unauthorized access in real time.
Key Benefits of Upwind’s Topology Map for S3 Buckets
With the Upwind Topology Map, you can:
- View real-time resource communication to specific S3 buckets
- Identify suspicious communication or irregular activities that could impact your S3 buckets
- Identify attack paths to sensitive data
Leveraging Runtime S3 Data for Prioritized CSPM Findings
Leveraging this granular S3 data, Upwind is also able to aggressively prioritize posture findings. Traditionally, CSPM alerts provide numerous alerts on S3 buckets by identifying S3 buckets that are exposed to the internet. However, those alerts often provide little to no environmental context, making it difficult for teams to understand the potential impact of the finding. Upwind solves this problem by deeply prioritizing S3 bucket posture findings, leveraging runtime context including:
- who talks to a specific S3 bucket
- what type of data resides in the S3 bucket
- which sensitive resources communicate with this bucket
- when the bucket first became exposed
By correlating this runtime context with S3 posture findings, Upwind cuts through the noise, automatically surfacing high-impact misconfiguration findings that represent the greatest risk to your environment based on real usage of your applications that run in the cloud.
Proactively Secure S3 Buckets with Upwind
Use Upwind’s runtime S3 awareness to gain even more context and visibility into your asset communication, track communication between resources, prioritize S3 posture findings, and respond to S3 bucket risks and threats in real time. For example, a media streaming company can use this feature to monitor unauthorized attempts to access content stored in S3 buckets, ensuring that copyrighted material remains protected and preventing data leaks.
To learn more about how Upwind proactively identifies attack paths and tracks real-time resource communication, schedule a demo.
