Making the cloud the safest place to compute: Sumo Logic Cloud Infrastructure Security for AWS

The landscape of cloud computing has evolved significantly over the years, transforming how businesses operate and innovate. This transformation has brought new challenges, especially in security. 

The growing adoption of cloud services, microservices architecture, and the shared responsibility model of cloud vendors has ushered in a need for robust security solutions that consolidate risk and threat data across cloud environments. Let’s explore the current state of cloud security, the challenges organizations face, and how Sumo Logic's Cloud Infrastructure Security for AWS can help address these concerns while delivering best-in-class time to value.

Why organizations move to the cloud

The motivations behind transitioning to the cloud are numerous and compelling. The benefits are clear, from enhancing efficiency and agility to mitigating business and regulatory risks. However, shifting to the cloud also brings unique security challenges, often underestimated. 

Businesses may not fully realize their responsibility in securing their cloud infrastructure. The proliferation of SaaS applications within organizations has created a complex landscape for IT teams. Managing hundreds of apps, licenses, and compliance risks can be overwhelming. Productiv’s 2021 report reveals the scale of this challenge, emphasizing the need for streamlined solutions.

Sharing the burden

The role of security professionals has evolved alongside cloud computing. While many aspects of traditional enterprise security are your responsibility under the shared responsibility model, high-profile data breaches have become increasingly common and costly. The financial burden, including direct costs, fines, penalties, and the loss of business and reputation, is staggering. IBM's 2023 Data Breach report sheds light on the escalating costs of data breaches. 

Cloud-based attacks are on the rise, focusing on small and medium businesses, as attackers automate their reconnaissance and attacks, leverage new categories of vulnerability, and take advantage of risks created by infrastructure complexity and high rates of change. Embedding security experts within development and operations teams is now a common practice. 

Organizations are also seeking centralized security solutions to manage their cloud accounts effectively. Teams need ways to gather data from multiple assessments across many cloud accounts to comprehensively manage security control risks and threats live in production.

Introducing Cloud Infrastructure Security for AWS

Sumo Logic's Cloud Infrastructure Security for AWS addresses the critical challenges organizations face in securing your cloud environments. Sumo Logic simplifies the management of multiple tools, apps, and hybrid cloud infrastructures, ensuring data are easily accessible and actionable. 

It helps teams gain visibility into rapidly changing cloud environments to prevent security gaps and vulnerabilities that could make your AWS infrastructure a target for hackers. Cloud Infrastructure Security for AWS centralizes security alerting, threat analysis, and suspicious activity to reveal and remediate potential attacks. Sumo Logic helps your teams, whether they are security, IT, or DevSecOps, work together seamlessly to address security issues, regardless of their organizational location. 

Sumo Logic's flexible data tiering and credits licensing model optimizes costs while providing effective cloud security. No surprise overages mean you can protect your AWS cloud environment without breaking the bank.

Cloud Infrastructure Security for AWS offers a range of use cases, including:

• Quick security incident and threat identification
• Understanding your AWS risk profile, including vulnerabilities and misconfigurations
• Visualizing the threat landscape
• Analyzing logs for unusual activity and active threats
• Leveraging threat intelligence to zero in on suspicious activity
• Machine learning-based anomaly detection clues you into outlier behaviors
• Out-of-the-box alerting and automated actions
• Monitoring cloud access, changes, and other critical factors

Sumo Logic's Cloud Infrastructure Security for AWS stands out due to its:

• Turnkey security analytics for essential AWS services.
• Out-of-the-box dashboards, monitors, and workflows.
• Detailed views into AWS infrastructure vulnerability, misconfigurations, and threat activity.
• Continuous updates and maintenance without downtime.
• Secure platform with certifications and attestations.

In the ever-evolving world of cloud computing, security is paramount. Sumo Logic's Cloud Infrastructure Security for AWS is designed to meet the unique challenges faced by organizations, offering a unified, comprehensive, and cost-effective solution. With this powerful tool, you can secure your AWS environments and mitigate threats effectively. 

Protect your cloud infrastructure and stay one step ahead of cybercriminals with Sumo Logic. Take a deeper dive and learn how to make the most of your AWS security tooling and the Sumo Logic SaaS Log Analytics Platform by reading our latest eBook or see it in action with a clickable demo.