Cloud Security should be effortless to deploy, seamless to operate, and architected for maximum efficiency.

We are excited to announce that we have made groundbreaking technological advancements to Upwind Agentless Cloud Scanners — the technology that powers Upwind Agentless and Sensor-based scanning — resulting in industry-leading performance and accuracy. Starting today, Upwind Scanners 2.0 are setting a new bar in the security industry for agentless scanner performance with better accuracy, faster scanning and 90% overhead reduction in resource consumption.

Our upgraded agentless cloud scanners now deliver even faster scanning, improved efficiency, and greater reliability. This allows us to protect cloud infrastructure at scale while substantially reducing the resources needed to scan for vulnerabilities, secrets, and more.

Our new reengineered agentless cloud scanners enable Upwind to deliver:

• Deep Operating System Findings: Upwind delivers a 10x improvement in vulnerability detections. Existing customers can now opt into ‘Extended Vulnerability Coverage’, which explicitly enables a broader set of detections introduced in Scanner 2.0.”
• 50% reduction in CPU usage: Optimized scanning processes cuts CPU utilization in half.
• 93% decrease in memory consumption: Our redesigned data processing reduces memory use by 93%, making it easier and more cost-effective to secure large environments.
• More stable report uploads: A revamped ingestion pipeline further reduces timeouts, incomplete uploads, and other processing errors. It also improves overall processing reliability.
• Innovation for the Future: Our streamlined cloud scanners support upcoming capabilities, like partial and resumable scans, with more granular control.
• Lower infrastructure costs, more competitive pricing: With reduced resource needs, customers benefit from lower overhead and industry-leading security at better prices.

At Upwind, we believe great products are never finished; they’re continuously refined to deliver even more value. Our latest updates to our agentless cloud scanners reflect that philosophy. These improvements build on an already solid and reliable capability, enhancing performance and efficiency.

What are Upwind Agentless Cloud Scanners? 

Upwind enhances its deep runtime insight with agentless scanning across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and Kubernetes. This capability empowers security teams to swiftly identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and exposed assets, scanning efficiently across environments without interrupting normal operations.

Upwind Agentless Cloud Scanners are ideal for:

• Gaining immediate visibility in new or expanding projects.
• Scanning legacy or third-party-managed workloads where deploying runtime sensors isn’t practical.
• Validating posture and compliance across regions, services, or accounts for audits. It also delivers instant value during onboarding, even before deploying the runtime sensor more broadly.
• Enriching runtime insights with configuration-level data for improved context

Scanners 2.0: Built for Modern Environments

As cloud environments grow more dynamic with VMs, containers, and serverless services deployed in seconds, security tooling needs to match that pace without compromising accuracy or coverage. Upwind’s agentless cloud scanners have always provided instantaneous coverage, and with this latest update we are bringing industry-leading performance and cost optimization to make this coverage even more accessible.

“The speed at which Upwind innovates is truly unheard of. Especially in a time when we see a lot of security companies being acquired or consolidating, we feel confident that Upwind is innovating faster than anyone in the market.”

-Horacio Granillo, SRE/DevOps Team Lead, TTMzero

With this release, organizations can now scan 10x more resources at the same operational effort, gaining instant visibility across:

• EC2 and other VM workloads
• Lambda functions and Fargate tasks
• Legacy and third-party-managed infrastructure
• Multi-cloud and multi-account environments (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes)

Driving Business Value with Upwind Scanners 2.0

Cloud security leaders need tooling that scales with their infrastructure. Our upgraded scanners help organizations:

• Accelerate time-to-value during onboarding
• Eliminate blind spots in legacy or restricted environments
• Maintain posture visibility across ephemeral and distributed workloads
• Align coverage expansion with cost containment strategies

By decoupling security from traditional agent deployment, Upwind enables teams to achieve broad cloud coverage faster, with reduced operational friction.

Final Thoughts

Building the world’s best cloud security platform means we have to be the best and most efficient at scanning. With these upgraded scanners, we’re raising the bar. They combine deep, real-time visibility with breakthrough performance and scalability to secure every cloud environment, no matter how fast it moves.

Discover how Upwind can help you secure your cloud environment quickly, accurately, and efficiently. All with minimal impact on your infrastructure or budget. Book a live product walkthrough or email us at [email protected].