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Get DevOps-Grade Visibility into Your Upwind Runtime Sensor

Denise Ashur February 07, 2024

Get DevOps-Grade Visibility into Your Upwind Runtime Sensor

We recently released a new capability – Upwind’s sensor collection metrics.

The Upwind eBPF-sensor is lightweight, high performance and easy to deploy and operate. With this new capability, you can receive even more visibility into your active sensor usage with real-time sensor metrics & data visualization, including CPU and node memory utilization.

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The Upwind sensor provides a modern approach to cloud security, giving you complete visibility of your cloud resource activity at runtime and allowing you to detect and respond to threats in real time. 

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Use this capability to easily visualize your sensor usage, track sensor performance over time and ensure that all of your running sensors are healthy, running efficiently and utilizing the latest updates.

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Further Reading

What IAM Sees That You Don't

What IAM Sees That You Don’t

Every IAM policy you write depends on condition keys - they're the precision layer that turns "can call S3" into "can call S3 only from our VPC, using our identity, on resources we own." They're the backbone of least-privilege, data perimeters, and SCP guardrails. But here's the thing: for every request, the IAM engine assembles…
Let Me Speak to Your Manager (Account)

Let Me Speak to Your Manager (Account)

The management account is the most privileged account in any AWS Organization. It controls SCPs, creates and deletes member accounts, manages IAM Identity Center, and is itself exempt from SCPs. Getting its 12-digit account ID is the first step in targeting it. The documented way to get it is organizations:DescribeOrganization - but security-conscious environments restrict…
Configuration-Focus

Introducing the new Configurations experience in Upwind

Compliance should not be a fire drill! Ask a security team how audit season goes and you will often hear a version of the same story. Someone pulls a list of cloud accounts. Someone else exports findings into a spreadsheet that is already outdated by the time it is shared. Screenshots get pasted into a…
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