Detect Suspicious Communication with a Public DNS Resolver 

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We are excited to announce a new capability to detect unusual DNS resolver activity. This detection notifies you of unusual behavior by a virtual machine or container in your cloud environment, which is communicating with a public DNS resolver that it hasn’t communicated with recently. DNS Resolvers Trusting your DNS resolvers is a critical part […]

Detect Unusual DoT Communications

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We are excited to announce a new detection type, identifying unusual DoT activity. This detection notifies you of unusual DNS over TLS (Transport Layer Security) communication, often referred to as DoT, which could indicate attempts to blend malicious communications with regular encrypted web traffic to evade detection. DNS over TLS (DoT)  DNS is a crucial […]

Leverage Runtime Data to Govern Kafka and ElastiCache Communication

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We are excited to announce that Upwind has now added enrichment to managed streaming service Kafka and ElastiCache in our context-rich topology map.  This new capability leverages runtime data, allowing you to govern your database network access through the Upwind platform. This builds on top of Upwind’s existing RDS cluster and Google Cloud SQL enrichment, […]