Alert Logic extends container security

Alert Logic has introduced major updates to the its Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) for containers.

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The release adds container log management and extends capabilities beyond Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Microsoft Azure, on-premises and hosted environments. Organisations gain a simplified, comprehensive picture of their risk through improved visibility into any workload in any container, as well as the ability to collect, aggregate and search container log data for improved security and compliance.  

 

According to 451 Research Principal Analyst Jay Lyman, containers can enable faster development cycles, increased resource efficiency, and application portability, translating to a fast-growing market expected to top $4 billion by 2022. “Nevertheless, security concerns and the difficulty of inspecting and monitoring container network traffic are among impediments that cause some organisations to delay their adoption of container technology.”

 

Available in Alert Logic Cloud Defender® and Alert Logic Threat Manager™ solutions, these expanded capabilities provide businesses with a single interface to manage the security of all containers, track events and incidents, and gain unprecedented visibility into their attack surface. Coverage includes real-time detection of known and unknown exploits that target applications running in containers on Docker, Kubernetes, Elastic Beanstalk, Docker Swarm, CoreOS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Amazon Elastic Container Service, and Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes. Because the new capabilities secure multi-cloud and multi-platform environments, container security is easily portable across platforms, allowing customers to take advantage of cost and operational efficiencies.

 

“Running container deployments without blind spots on AWS, Azure and on-premises is essential to our business, to our client service, and for compliance requirements,” said Mike Santimaw, Rent-a-Center Vice President of Information Security, Innovation Labs & Corporate Solutions. “Alert Logic’s container security already provides the real-time visibility we need on AWS, and we are excited for expanded capabilities for Azure and on-prem.”

 

“Our NIDS-based approach to container security, combined with new container log management capabilities and integration across an organisation’s total—and often complex—environment, provides a more comprehensive view than other solutions available today,” said Chris Noell, Senior Vice President, Engineering at Alert Logic. “Businesses employ containers for ease and speed of deployment, yet struggle to maintain consistent security as they move containers across cloud, hosted and on-prem environments. Alert Logic solves this challenge by making security as portable as your containers, without any lag or disruption to business operations.” 

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