Automatically Correlate Identity Context with Real-Time Container Behaviors
We are excited to announce a new addition to Upwind’s industry-leading container security capabilities, giving you the ability to easily view information about highly privileged identities for every containerized resource in your cloud environment. The Upwind Cloud Security Platform goes beyond traditional CWPP solutions to leverage runtime insights and correlate them with your most important […]
Understanding Kubernetes Identities Part 2: Escalation Paths
In Kubernetes, understanding identity escalation paths is crucial for managing security risks effectively. This blog post delves into defining highly privileged identities and exploring potential privilege escalation paths using highly privileged permissions. Definition of a Highly Privileged Identity in Kubernetes In Kubernetes, a highly privileged identity refers to entities such as users or service accounts […]
Understanding Kubernetes Identities, Part 1
When it comes to Kubernetes, managing identities is pivotal for ensuring secure and efficient cluster operations. These identities can be human users or machines, each requiring specific permissions to perform their tasks. In our latest research, we have explored what Kubernetes identities are, the default identities, the permissions they can have, how to configure these […]
Ensure Security for AWS EC2 Instances & Lambda Functions with Upwind’s Non-Human Identity Security
Using Upwind’s Non-Human Identity Security, you can easily monitor and secure AWS execution roles and ensure best practices for non-human identities (NHIs). Execution roles are important for granting permissions to AWS EC2 instances and AWS Lambda functions. However, it can be difficult to enforce best practices that allow only known resources to assume and use […]
Proactively Protect Your Kubernetes with Upwind’s Non-Human Identity Security
We recently announced the release of Upwind’s Identity Security, designed to provide real-time protection for human and non-human identities with a comprehensive Cloud Identity Entitlement Management (CIEM) offering. In this blog post, we will dive deeper into Upwind’s protection for non-human identities (NHI), which provide machine-to-machine access and authentication within your software environment and cloud […]
Top Ways Upwind Helps DevOps Engineers Monitor APIs & CI/CD
This is part two of a two-part blog series on how Upwind helps DevOps teams. You can read part 1 here. The Upwind Cloud Security Platform helps organizations accelerate productivity and empower their Dev, Security, and DevOps teams to innovate within a secure and efficient environment. In our last article on how Upwind helps DevOps […]
Easily Understand & Intelligently Secure Human & Machine Identities
In the ever changing and complex cloud infrastructure landscape, organizations must not only protect their cloud infrastructure and applications from external threats, but also secure them from internal human and machine identities through the practice of Cloud Identity Entitlement Management (CIEM). Managing identities presents multiple challenges, ranging from the need for thorough auditing and generating compliance […]