Lacework, the data-driven cloud security company, today introduced the Polygraph® Data Platform, which helps organizations of all sizes automatically uncover suspicious activity across a multicloud environment so they can detect and address true threats and risks to their business from build time through runtime. Lacework is the only company to offer automated anomaly detection that provides consistent visibility, context, and security across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Kubernetes EKS environments, providing customers with the ability to detect attack activity stemming from known and unknown threats. Lacework uses data and automation to protect multicloud environments, helping customers prioritize risk with pinpoint accuracy – with or without an agent – so they can innovate with confidence.
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The recent Log4j vulnerability, which began as a zero day threat, is an example of the advantage of the Lacework approach. Lacework identified anomalous behavior in customer environments before disclosure of the vulnerability. New capabilities added to the platform allow customers to better prioritize the remediation of Log4j by integrating relevant vulnerability data with anomaly detection to surface these vulnerabilities more prominently.
According to a commissioned Total Economic Impact Study™ conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Lacework, customers identified that the Polygraph Data Platform helped drive down the cost of security while at the same time increasing the time-to-value and efficacy of their security posture. One of Forrester’s interviewees for the study said, it typically takes six to twelve months to tune incoming signals, whereas Lacework takes only one to two weeks to learn their environment. As a result, the platform reduced the number of alerts by as much as 86%, making it easier for security and developer teams to tackle the most critical issues and giving them time to focus on other strategic initiatives. Based on the interviews and financial analysis, the study found that a composite organization experiences an ROI of 342% over three years.
Most security tools were not built for the scale, complexity, and speed of a single cloud environment, let alone multi or hybrid cloud. Relying on security teams to create rules that scan against a list of known problems, these tools bury critical information amid an influx of alerts and delay protection for new issues or attacks. These tools also often exist outside the company’s development process, positioning security teams as a roadblock to speedy innovation.
Securing cloud environments will only increase in importance. According to a recent independent global study of 700 executives, security, and DevOps practitioners, 88% of respondents said the security of their cloud environment will become increasingly important over the next year, with more than half feeling overwhelmed by their organization’s current security posture.
About Lacework
Lacework is the data-driven security company for the cloud. The Lacework Polygraph® Data Platform automates cloud security at scale so our customers can innovate with speed and safety. Only Lacework can collect, analyze, and accurately correlate data across an organization’s AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes environments,