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In at the moment’s evolving world of cloud safety, figuring out how you can comprehensively safe cloud infrastructure and purposes could be difficult. Offering agile, full safety that identifies essential dangers and proactively remediates them is much more tough. That’s the place Upwind is available in.
The Upwind Cloud Safety Platform defines the pace, visibility, and actionability of an Azure buyer’s cloud safety to establish essential dangers immediately, get to the basis trigger sooner, and halt assaults in real-time. In a multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud actuality, Upwind offers 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 revolutionary AKS safety
Petrofac is a number one power providers firm that helps its purchasers meet the world’s evolving power wants. Petrofac’s refined Azure infrastructure permits it to undertake agile cloud practices and set up an in depth AKS setting. Nevertheless, 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 on the spot insights into their Azure stock and real-time suggestions to additional safe their AKS setting.
“Upwind was extremely simple to stand up and working,” 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 checklist 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 gather real-time insights by means of Upwind’s eBPF-based sensor. Petrofac’s safety crew was capable of acquire a complete view of their AKS setting and begin proactively defending in opposition to Kubernetes threats.
View real-time community communication and insights for Azure Kubernetes Service workloads (demo knowledge)
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 working of their setting.
“Upwind’s capability to watch our infra 24/7 to proactively discover threats has proven us simply how a lot organizations are lacking after 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 stop future malicious processes from working (demo knowledge)
Chopping 98% of noise to give attention to actual danger
Along with real-time AKS safety, Upwind additionally provides Petrofac the power to simply establish essential dangers and vulnerabilities and quickly remediate them. The Upwind platform helps Petrofac give attention to precise dangers somewhat than theoretical ones by taking a look at ingress site visitors, in-use packages, and build-time knowledge. That is paired with root trigger evaluation that goes all the way down to the extent of the developer chargeable for pushing the code that precipitated the vulnerability.
By leveraging each runtime and build-time knowledge, Upwind minimize 98% of alert noise for Petrofac, permitting their crew to focus and prioritize their most crucial points.
Upwind filters your vulnerabilities, chopping down alert noise and serving to you focus in your most crucial dangers based mostly on actual environmental components (demo knowledge)
“Utilizing Upwind has utterly modified the way in which we defend our AKS clusters. Upwind’s real-time container safety has minimize 98% of our alert noise, making it simple for us to rapidly discover and repair dangers, cease threats and make 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 benefit from:
- 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 danger 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 working consumer identities, together with viewing identification danger by useful resource, and figuring out all customers and their permissions which have entry to AKS assets.
“Microsoft and Upwind have established a powerful technological and enterprise alliance that exhibits how revolutionary 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 carry 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.