Sift Security: All-Round Cloud Infrastructure Security

As cloud technologies continue to evolve, so do the threats and vulnerabilities associated with them. In fact, the two go hand in hand. Companies are increasingly shifting higher value workloads to the cloud, which makes them attractive targets. Furthermore, due to different priorities and the lack of relevant expertise, organizations are often exposing a significant attack surface for bad actors to exploit. Today, one of the most commonly reported threats related to cloud infrastructure is organizations misconfiguring Amazon S3 buckets, inadvertently enabling man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks and ultimately, the exposure of sensitive data. Instances of compromised user credentials, privilege escalation, and malicious actions such as data exfiltration and cryptocurrency mining are on the rise. “We increasingly see sophisticated organizations that want to ensure proper configuration, proactively identify potential breaches in their cloud environment, hunt for threats, and be ready to rapidly respond to threats with accelerated manual response and automation where appropriate,” says Neil King, CEO at Sift Security. Through their novel CloudHunter Platform, Sift Security offers tailor-made solutions for protecting cloud infrastructures.

Being the scalable cloud offering that it is, “CloudHunter can be integrated with an organization’s workflow in minutes,” explains King. “Users can easily add additional integrations to support required use cases for their organization.” These integrations can be initiated manually from the user interface or automatically when rules are triggered, both of which are easily customizable. The platform’s capability to analyze historical data, such as logs that existed prior to its installation, allows users to generate behavioral detections quickly.

As such, CloudHunter’s robust and scalable data model provides comprehensive and relevant visibility into every nook and cranny of cloud infrastructures including APIs, networks, hosts, and more.