Alcide reaches AWS Outposts Ready Designation
Kubernetes Security solutions provider Alcide hit a benchmark this week, confirming that it has achieved the AWS Outposts Ready designation, suggesting that successful integration with AWS Outposts deployments has been demonstrated by the Kubernetes security solutions provider. For a young business, this classification is a massive deal. It acknowledges that successful integration with AWS Outposts deployments was demonstrated by Alcide’s platform.
Alcide is a Kubernetes security pioneer enabling DevOps teams to push seamless security guardrails into their CI / CD pipelines, and security teams to keep their growing Kubernetes deployments safe and stable. For cross-Kubernetes aspects, Alcide offers a single Kubernetes-native AI-driven security platform: configuration threats, visibility across clusters, and run-time security events. Alcide ensures that the entire dev-to-production pipeline is protected in collaboration with security enforcement and a behavioral anomaly engine that detects anomalous and malicious network activity.
“We are proud to achieve AWS Outposts Ready status at launch. At Alcide, we keep our tradition of being at the forefront of Kubernetes Security with yet another innovation, keeping our mission of ensuring any Kubernetes deployment of our clients will run smoothly and securely. Our team is dedicated to helping companies achieve their technology goals by leveraging the agility, breadth of services, and pace of innovation which AWS provides.” said Amir Ofek, Alcide’s CEO.
AWS Outposts is a managed service that enables companies to run their on-site AWS solutions, allowing a genuinely consistent hybrid experience. The service extends nearly every datacenter, co-location space or on-site facility to the AWS infrastructure, facilities, APIs and software. The AWS Outposts Ready designation comes as part of the Ready Service Program for Amazon Web Services (AWS).
“We know the importance of helping customers and organizations more easily identify potential security risks in order to take action. With Alcide Advisor and Alcide ART available to customers on AWS Outposts, we are able to provide a comprehensive view of (a customer’s) security posture on their infrastructure, on AWS Outposts, and in AWS Regions, both on premises and in the cloud, for a truly consistent hybrid experience.” said Joshua Burgin, general manager for the AWS Outposts group.
Alcide consists of three main modules, namely — Advisor, kAudit and Runtime. Advisor is a Kubernetes multi-cluster vulnerability scanner which covers the best practices and compliance checks for rich Kubernetes and Istio protection. The kAudit detects anomalous behavior and suspicious activity automatically based on the Kubernetes audit log. It also allows custom rules and warnings to be identified when certain activities occur at Kubernetes. RunTime (ART) protects the container network with a firewall and a threat detection engine for microservices. It also monitors processes that operate on their own in containers.
