Cloud security teams are drowning in alerts, struggling to prioritize real threats among endless notifications. To help security professionals cut through the noise, we are thrilled to announce major enhancements to our Threats Module, further empowering security professionals to understand deep context for every threat detection, identify emerging threat actors, and respond to threats faster.
Upwind has always provided industry-leading threat detection and response capabilities, and these new enhancements are designed to streamline the user experience, addressing common challenges such as alert fatigue, fragmented security insights, and time-consuming investigations. By offering deeper runtime context, real-time updates, and improved workflows, these enhancements make it easier than ever for users to rapidly identify emerging threats, investigate detections and understand the full story of a security incident.
Introducing Upwind Threat Stories
Threat Stories act as incident summaries, consolidating multiple detections, events, and SSH login activities into a single, cohesive view. Unlike traditional SIEM alerts or standalone detections, Threat Stories automatically correlate related events in real-time, providing a broader and more contextualized understanding of potential security incidents. This enhancement helps security teams reduce noise, prioritize critical threats, and accelerate incident response.
This unified perspective offers a deeper understanding of security events by detailing the sequence of actions, their implications, and their impact within a single narrative. Attacks often begin with subtle reconnaissance actions that might be tagged as separate events. With Threat Stories, these events are contextualized as part of the full attack sequence, allowing for a clearer picture of how an incident unfolds.
By consolidating relevant data points into a clear narrative, Threat Stories allow teams to focus on the bigger picture and prioritize threats more effectively. They detail the sequence of events, including detections and login activity, providing a deeper understanding of the “why” behind an event. This comprehensive view streamlines investigations, allowing for faster and more efficient threat responses.
While previously available as Stories, our newly enhanced Threat Stories have moved to the Upwind Threats Module, connecting the dots between seemingly unrelated events leading up to a security incident in comprehensive Threat Stories. Threat stories include 3 major features – dynamic timeline updates, correlated events and enhanced workflows, described below in more detail.
Dynamic Timeline Updates
Stories are dynamic and updated in real-time to reflect evolving security incidents. These can be found in a side panel, which will provide a story summary and real-time timeline feed of related events.
Correlated Events
Each story will clearly indicate related events, detections, and SSH Sessions that are a part of the story. Similarly, each individual finding will link back to the larger Threat Story.
Enhanced Workflows
An automatic email will be sent to users for every Threat Story release, ensuring timely awareness of new threats and accelerating mean time to response. Additionally, can now share stories directly from within the Upwind platform and create custom notifications, facilitating seamless collaboration among team members.
Upwind’s enhanced Threat Stories revolutionize security incident investigation by providing real-time, contextual insights within the Threats Module. With dynamic timeline updates, clear correlation of related events, and seamless sharing capabilities, security teams can quickly connect the dots between detections and take decisive action. Automated notifications ensure timely awareness of new threats, while integrated collaboration tools streamline response efforts. By centralizing critical threat intelligence, Upwind empowers organizations to stay ahead of evolving security risks and respond with speed and confidence.
“Upwind Threat Stories has drastically reduced triage and investigation time by correlating runtime detections with audit logs and giving us end-to-end visibility. Understanding who did what, how, and when, at a single glance has been a major game-changer.”
—Dobromir Kosev, Security Engineer, Yotpo
Stay Ahead of Evolving Threats with Upwind’s Threat Feed
In our ongoing commitment to streamline and enhance your security operations, we’ve centralized threat-related information by relocating the Security Feed to the Threats tab, now aptly named the Threat Feed. This integration ensures that all critical updates are accessible in one unified location, simplifying the monitoring process for security teams.
What is the Threat Feed?
The Threat Feed is a native feature within the Upwind platform that provides continuously updated information on new and emerging attacks, zero-day vulnerabilities, and pertinent security trends. Curated by the Upwind Security Research team, it offers timely insights tailored to users’ specific environments, enabling proactive threat identification and mitigation.
Key Features and Benefits:
- Real-Time Updates: Stay informed about the latest vulnerabilities and threats as they emerge, allowing for swift action to protect your assets.
- Environment-Specific Analysis: The Threat Feed includes built-in analyses that highlight how new threats may impact a user’s specific environment, facilitating targeted investigations and responses.
- Direct Access to Detailed Reports: Each entry in the Threat Feed links to comprehensive analyses on the Upwind website, providing in-depth information to guide security strategies.
- Streamlined Investigations: Quickly identify which images, associated packages, and infrastructure resources in an environment are susceptible to newly identified vulnerabilities, expediting remediation efforts.
By integrating the Threat Feed into the Threats Module, Upwind ensures that security teams have centralized access to the most relevant and up-to-date threat intelligence. Unlike traditional SIEMs or security tools that require manual correlation, Upwind automatically maps threat intelligence to your environment, reducing investigation time and increasing response efficiency. This consolidation eliminates the need to switch between multiple dashboards or external feeds, reducing investigation time and enabling faster decision-making when responding to threats
We’re not only simplifying the monitoring process but also empowering security teams to respond to emerging threats with greater efficiency and precision than on any other cloud security platform.
Stay Ahead of Evolving Threats with Upwind
With the latest enhancements to Upwind’s Threats Module, security teams can now investigate incidents more efficiently, connect the dots between seemingly unrelated detections, and stay ahead of emerging threats. With centralized Threat Stories and a dynamically updated Threat Feed, Upwind empowers organizations to rapidly identify emerging threats, investigate detections and understand the full story of a security incident. Schedule a demo today and see how Upwind can cut your investigation time by up to 90%. See how our enhanced Threats Module can transform your security operations and help you stay ahead of emerging threats.
