Alert Logic transforms
container security with network
intrusion detection system
lert Logic, a leading provider of
Security-as-a-Service solutions,
has announced its new network
intrusion detection system (IDS) for
containers, available in Alert Logic Cloud
Defender and Threat Manager solutions.
This innovation brings organisations
powerful new capabilities to inspect
network traffic for malicious activity
targeting containers and faster detection
of compromises to enhance the security
of workloads running on the AWS Cloud.
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The Alert Logic network IDS capability
supports containers deployed on AWS
including Docker, Amazon Elastic
Container Service, Kubernetes, CoreOS
and AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Support for
additional cloud-deployed containers will
be available before the end of the year.
The Alert Logic incident console can
also now display which containers and
hosts might be compromised along with
the associated metadata.
Chris Noell, Senior Vice President,
Engineering at Alert Logic. “Network
intrusion detection is critical to providing
the visibility into container attacks that
other approaches miss. With Alert Logic,
organisations can confidently move
forward with their container deployments
knowing that they are protected by the
Chris Noell, Senior Vice President,
Engineering at Alert Logic
only security solution in the market that
addresses container visibility at the
network layer.”
Products and services approach
The Alert Logic container security
solutions work by analysing the
signature of data packets as they
traverse the container environment to
detect cyberattacks in real-time and
provide a graphical representation of
the compromised container and its
relationships. The intrusion detection
capabilities for containers are fully
managed by Alert Logic’s 24x7
security and compliance experts in the
company’s Security Operations Centres.
When a container threat is detected,
Alert Logic’s security experts prioritise
the threat, proactively escalate within 15
minutes, provide visual context and offer
remediation advice for customers. u
Containers enable organisations to
leverage the low overhead, power, agility
and security of virtualisation with the
improved benefit of portability. While
the container market is growing fast
given these benefits, with an estimated
CAGR of 40% through 2020 according
to 451 Research, many businesses
have delayed container adoption and
the related cost and time benefits due
to security concerns. Until now, Alert
Logic says, the security industry hasn’t
provided the critical ability to inspect the
network traffic that targets containers.
“Without real-time detection capabilities,
attackers and intruders can lurk within
containers installing trojans, malware,
ransomware and cryptominers or even
corrupting and exfiltrating data,” said
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