Product Overview
Lacework is a cloud security services provider that specializes in automating cloud security at scale, enabling customers to innovate with both speed and safety. Lacework offers a cloud-native platform designed to provide comprehensive security across multi-cloud environments, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Kubernetes. The platform is built on the premise of merging data and security through continuous monitoring and analysis of cloud environments.
Key Features and Functionality
Automated Anomaly Detection
Lacework’s Polygraph Data Platform ingests vast amounts of data to learn the normal behavior of a customer’s cloud environment. It uses machine learning to detect anomalies and provides actionable insights for security teams. This approach eliminates the need for manual rule writing and significantly reduces the noise from millions of data points, turning them into prioritized, actionable events.
Risk Prioritization and Alerting
The platform prioritizes risks before creating alerts for security teams, ensuring that only critical issues are brought to their attention. For instance, it can narrow down 243 million incoming security data points to a single key alert, greatly enhancing the efficiency of Security Operations Centers (SOCs).
Compliance Monitoring and Governance
Lacework includes robust compliance monitoring features that track data quality and send alerts based on violations or misuse. It also provides governance tools to manage user access privileges, ensuring that sensitive information remains secure.
Cloud Gap Analytics and Vulnerability Management
The platform analyzes data associated with denied entries and policy enforcement, providing insights into better authentication and security protocols. It also performs vulnerability scanning and stores information on new and common vulnerabilities, helping in proactive threat hunting and risk prioritization.
Security Auditing and Reporting
Lacework conducts security audits by analyzing data associated with security configurations and infrastructure, offering vulnerability insights and best practices. It provides pre-built and custom reports and dashboards to help manage business operations and support auditing.
Workload and Container Security
The platform offers visibility into risks across cloud environments, deploying quickly to cloud accounts and identifying vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and secrets in workloads, container images, hosts, and language libraries. It correlates data to show potential attack paths and provides remediation guidance.
Lacework Edge
Lacework Edge is a Secure Access Service Edge (SSE) solution that ensures secure access to internet, private, and SaaS applications. It evaluates the risk of each connection request using real-time user and device context, replacing traditional network security tools like VPNs. Edge features include end-to-end zero trust connectivity, document monitoring, and inline workflows that automate responses based on user behavior and business policies.
Overall Benefits
- Enhanced Security: Lacework provides holistic protection across data, devices, and posture, intercepting attacks earlier in the attack lifecycle.
- Efficiency: It significantly reduces the mean time to detect and respond to threats, improving the end-user experience and operational efficiency.
- Comprehensive Visibility: The platform offers end-to-end visibility into cloud environments, detecting threats, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and unusual activity.
- Scalability: With its cloud-native architecture, Lacework ensures global availability and performance, making it suitable for organizations operating in an increasingly interconnected world.