We’re excited to introduce a powerful new container security capability that makes it easier than ever to view and query Kubernetes objects while exploring the entire exposure path with Upwind’s runtime topology map. Upwind has always provided deep visibility into containerized resources, showing traffic by port, process, and protocol, as well as details into an […]

This year has been one of market penetration, expansion and innovation for Upwind. From exiting stealth in September 2023 to a little more than a year later, we expanded our global presence with offices in the UK, Iceland, Israel and the US, held a Series A, maintained a robust schedule of product innovation, and had […]

As a part of Upwind’s runtime-powered threat detection capabilities, the Upwind Platform integrates seamlessly with AWS CloudTrail to provide real-time monitoring and detection of cloud logs. By leveraging AWS CloudTrail Logs generated at runtime, Upwind is able to provide deep runtime context and automatically alert you to suspicious or malicious log events. What is CloudTrail? […]

It has been a big week for Upwind here at AWS re:Invent 2024!  Our team has been on the ground in Las Vegas, Nevada this week for AWS’s largest annual conference. Here’s a quick look at what we’ve been up to. Monday, December 2. We announced our $100 million Series A, which was featured in […]

Upwind’s next-generation cloud security platform not only provides real-time risk analysis and threat detection, it also gives you the ability to respond to threats in real time.  In this article, we will dive deep into how Upwind detects threats in real time, our advanced methods of  activity-based threat detection, and ways you can stop or […]

We are excited to announce an addition to Upwind’s comprehensive container security, with support for Container-Optimized OS. What is Container-Optimized OS? Container-Optimized OS is a Google Cloud operating system image, and is the default node OS Image in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). It is primarily used for compute engine VMs and is optimized for running […]

We are excited to announce that Upwind has been named by Fortune and Lightspeed Venture Partners in the 2025 Fortune Cyber 60. This list recognizes the 60 fastest-growing cybersecurity startups, highlighting our commitment to innovation and delivering an industry-leading cloud security platform. This is the second year in a row that Upwind has been named […]

Upwind has been named by The Information as one of the most promising startups in the SaaS & Security category, highlighting our commitment to building an industry-leading cloud security platform. The Information’s annual list focuses on 50 companies that have the potential to be the most valuable businesses in their categories, based on their revenue, […]

Upwind’s eBPF sensor is lightweight and high performance, which was recently shown in a record-breaking image scan with customer H2O.ai. When scanning H2O.ai’s 30GB container image with multiple dependencies, the Upwind sensor consumed less than 1GB of RAM, about 3% of the image size, demonstrating how Upwind ensures comprehensive runtime security coverage with a lightweight […]

The Upwind platform includes comprehensive protection for cloud infrastructure and applications, including Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Fargate.  AWS Fargate has numerous advantages, but it also presents unique cloud security challenges, which Upwind actively solves with real-time monitoring and protection. In this article, we will cover the basic anatomy of AWS Fargate, challenges that make […]