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In at this time’s evolving world of cloud safety, figuring out tips on how to comprehensively safe cloud infrastructure and functions may be difficult. Offering agile, full safety that identifies crucial dangers and proactively remediates them is much more troublesome. That’s the place Upwind is available in.
The Upwind Cloud Security Platform defines the pace, visibility, and actionability of an Azure buyer’s cloud safety to establish crucial dangers immediately, get to the basis trigger sooner, and halt assaults in real-time. In a multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud actuality, Upwind gives complete cloud safety to speed up productiveness and empower their growth, safety and DevOps groups to innovate inside a safe and environment friendly setting, together with managed Kubernetes providers like Microsoft’s AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service).
Offering Petrofac with progressive AKS safety
Petrofac is a number one vitality providers firm that helps its purchasers meet the world’s evolving vitality wants. Petrofac’s refined Azure infrastructure permits it to undertake agile cloud practices and set up an in depth AKS setting. Nonetheless, to make sure that their AKS clusters had been protected in real-time, whereas additionally working to scale back the assault floor, they discovered an answer with Upwind.
Petrofac was capable of rapidly and simply deploy the Upwind platform, offering them with instantaneous insights into their Azure stock and real-time suggestions to additional safe their AKS setting.
“Upwind was extremely straightforward to stand up and operating,” Petrofac’s International Head of Cyber Safety, Shahab Siddiqui, tells Microsoft for Startups. “Inside the first few hours of connecting to the Platform, we already had an actionable record of suggestions to strengthen our AKS safety, in addition to real-time visibility into our containerized useful resource communication.”
Actual-time AKS risk detection and response
Petrofac’s AKS safety makes use of Upwind to find its containerized assets, establish any vulnerabilities, and accumulate real-time insights via Upwind’s eBPF-based sensor. Petrofac’s safety workforce was capable of acquire a complete view of their AKS setting and begin proactively defending towards Kubernetes threats.
View real-time community communication and insights for Azure Kubernetes Service workloads (demo information)
Upwind grants Petrofac the power to immediately establish threats and eradicate malicious processes with the press of a button. It additionally creates prevention insurance policies to dam future malware from operating of their setting.
“Upwind’s capacity to observe our infra 24/7 to proactively discover threats has proven us simply how a lot organizations are lacking once they depend on static instruments for defense. With the ability to obtain detections in actual time has given us a further layer of safety that’s essential for our group and helped us considerably strengthen our cloud safety follow.” -Leon Colaco, Cyber Safety Analyst at Petrofac
Cease threats in real-time and create prevention insurance policies to forestall future malicious processes from operating (demo information)
Reducing 98% of noise to give attention to actual threat
Along with real-time AKS safety, Upwind additionally provides Petrofac the power to simply establish crucial dangers and vulnerabilities and quickly remediate them. The Upwind platform helps Petrofac give attention to precise dangers fairly than theoretical ones by taking a look at ingress site visitors, in-use packages, and build-time information. That is paired with root trigger evaluation that goes all the way down to the extent of the developer accountable for pushing the code that induced the vulnerability.
By leveraging each runtime and build-time information, Upwind minimize 98% of alert noise for Petrofac, permitting their workforce to focus and prioritize their most crucial points.
Upwind filters your vulnerabilities, slicing down alert noise and serving to you focus in your most crucial dangers based mostly on actual environmental components (demo information)
“Utilizing Upwind has fully modified the best way we defend our AKS clusters. Upwind’s real-time container safety has minimize 98% of our alert noise, making it straightforward for us to rapidly discover and repair dangers, cease threats and be sure that our containerized setting is safe.” -Kalim Aziz, Cyber Safety Chief at Petrofac
Pairing AKS agility with real-time safety
By implementing the Upwind Cloud Safety Platform, Petrofac has been capable of leverage the perfect of each worlds—marrying Azure’s fast constructing capabilities in Azure Kubernetes Service with Upwind’s real-time safety. This has helped Petrofac reap the benefits of:
- Full AKS visibility: Upwind permits Petrofac to view useful resource communication and establish all communication inside clusters, inside accounts, and to the web.
- Actual-time AKS safety: Petrofac can use Upwind’s risk detection and response to detect threats and cease them on the packet and course of stage.
- Prioritized AKS threat evaluation: Upwind has decreased 98% of Petrofac’s alerts, serving to them give attention to their most crucial dangers and proactively cut back their assault floor.
- AKS identification consciousness: Upwind provides Petrofac visibility into all of its operating person identities, together with viewing identification threat by useful resource, and figuring out all customers and their permissions which have entry to AKS assets.
“Microsoft and Upwind have established a robust technological and enterprise alliance that exhibits how progressive know-how can foster progress and clear up issues. Petrofac’s use of Azure and Upwind is a primary instance of how strongly this alliance can deliver elevated worth to clients.” -Tom Davis, Senior Director, Microsoft for Startups
Simply as Petrofac has harnessed the ability of AKS and Upwind’s Cloud Safety Platform to quickly and securely construct in Azure, all Azure clients can make the most of Upwind’s AKS safety to make sure fast and thorough cloud safety.
