Alert Logic Launches Cloud Insight for AWS

This week, cloud SaaS provider Alert Logic announced the launch of Alert Logic Cloud Insight, a new vulnerability and configuration management solution designed to detect and remediate service breaches within Amazon Web Services workloads.

Cloud Insight is being touted as the first solution of its kind to provide users with a list of remediation actions to stamp out potential vulnerabilities in addition to merely listing problem areas. Users will also have access to an integrated view of both host and AWS services vulnerabilities via instance-level scanning and AWS configuration level scanning, said Rahul Bakshi, senior director of product at Alert Logic.

“What we’re doing is we’re looking at both layers, and bringing it together into a single tool and applying high automation and high integration into AWS so that customers get a single UI, a single product that gives them vulnerability management across their entire stack,” said Bakshi, in an interview with Talkin’ Cloud. “The visibility and deep insight across the stack is one of those characteristics we have that we have yet to see any other product deliver on.”

After users determine which areas of their workload they wish to scan with Cloud Insight, the solution identifies issues and prioritizes the most significant vulnerabilities. The system then creates a custom remediation plan to help users stop problems before they jeopardize their workloads. After issues are solved, the solution rescans each item to ensure that a proper fix has been instituted.

Cloud Insight was designed with native integration with AWS APIs to provide continuous monitoring and auto-discovery of potential vulnerabilities, and alerts users to any changes in their AWS environment in real-time, according to Alert Logic. Additional integration with AWS CloudTrail is also expected to help IT eliminate the need to manually search for vulnerabilities within their environments, said Bakshi.

“This first release is designed around AWS and really building a framework to be able to interact with the APIs, pull the data from CloudTrail, undertand it, and then build that into an asset model,” said Bakshi. “And by creating that asset model of a customer’s environment, we’re able to deliver a discovery across their services and instances… and we’re able to provide vulnerability assessment across that stack to be able to scan it continuously.”

Cloud Insight is available as a service, with instances costing a dollar per day, per user. The company said it plans to bring Cloud Insight to other services in the near future if demand is strong enough.