How do we support companies in securing their cloud platforms?

By Pietro Villivà, S2E Business Line Manager Cloud Security

Cloud security, what is it

As defined by Gartner, "cloud security refers to the processes, mechanisms and services used to control the security, compliance and other risks of using cloud computing. Although all forms of cloud computing have specific security needs, this term refers primarily to public cloud computing" (source Gartner)

Cloud security, for whom

With our cloud security services, we address medium and large companies with complex, interconnected and diverse infrastructures in the cloud. These organisations are often characterised by business processes using multiple services and micro-services, collaborating and exchanging information with each other, often belonging to different vendors or cloud providers, adopting security paradigms that are not natively integrated. Moreover, the scalability of volumes often risks the loss of control over the security of corporate assets. The aim of cloud security is to ensure the correct application of international standards and best practices, to safeguard the correct use of the cloud provider's services and, at the same time, guarantee the security of the solutions delivered through the cloud provider itself.

Our Services

Our services cover various areas and are delivered through various vendor partners and utilise different technologies. The adoption of the cloud facilitates the delivery of new services in tight timeframes, as well as increased business volumes, and therefore presents a challenge for security control. Our methodology embraces technologies that enable the identification of critical issues within complex cloud service chains and micro-services, contextualising their origin and safeguarding the entire process chain, and the timely identification of threats and critical issues. We take care of the design, implementation, evolution and maintenance of organisations' security posture, leveraging our vertical expertise on various technology providers such as AWS, Azure, Microsoft 365, GCP and cross-cutting technologies such as WIZ, Lookout , Netscope, Akamai, and others.

The advantages for CIOs and CISOs

CIO gets support in the seamless integration of security solutions, automating the management of critical issues, facilitating collaboration with external vendors, while ensuring safe and unhindered technology evolution.

CISO benefits from consultancy support to address compliance and data security needs, in compliance with international best practices and standards

Wiz Cnaap platform

The acronym Cnapp stands for Cloud Native Application Protection Platform: it is in this precise area of cloud security that Wiz's platform is placed, an agentless solution that connects in minutes via APIs and achieves complete coverage of PaaS resources, virtual machines, containers, serverless functions or sensitive data stored in public buckets, data volumes and databases, without disrupting business operations or requiring ongoing maintenance. It adapts to any cloud environment without impacting the performance of resources or workloads.

Wiz offers businesses a simple, straightforward and concrete approach to security in their cloud with three key benefits:

Visibility: Analyses every layer of cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Alibaba Cloud, Openshift and Kubernetes across virtual machines, containers and serverless) to provide complete visibility and context on every technology running in the cloud and specific on-premises environments in minutes.

Security: Continuously prioritises critical risks based on an in-depth analysis of the cloud, and compatible on-premises environments, including misconfigurations, network exposures, secrets, vulnerabilities, malware and identities to create a single, prioritised, preventative view of risk. All of this is modelled on the Wiz Security Graph, which provides contextual insights so that dangerous combinations can be proactively and systematically identified and risks remediated.

Agility: Enables security, development and DevOps teams to have tools to scale security throughout the development lifecycle. It also provides direct visibility, risk prioritisation and remediation guidance to development teams to address risks in their own infrastructure and applications with integration into the development pipeline to prevent problems from being distributed.

Conclusions

The Wiz platform enables security and development teams to efficiently identify vulnerabilities and prevent breaches, while S2E is able to amplify the value of this solution by integrating it with S2E-developed services such as SOC as a Service, Automated Incident Response Platform and others.

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