{"id":5401,"date":"2013-01-15T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?guid=ad516e124168489dee19b7c1dc794b94"},"modified":"2013-01-15T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T18:11:00","slug":"alienvault-unified-security-provides-security-visibility-for-amazon-ec2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/alienvault-unified-security-provides-security-visibility-for-amazon-ec2\/","title":{"rendered":"AlienVault Unified Security Provides Security Visibility for Amazon EC2"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"org fn\">AlienVault <\/span><span class=\"org fn\">today<\/span><span class=\"org fn\"> announced its latest 4.1 release, which aims to resolve the biggest challenges associated with traditional SIEM solutions including cost, complexity and difficult deployments. AlienVault Unified Security Management (AV-USM) platform 4.1 simplifies and speeds SIEM deployments and provides intelligent security incident response guidance. AV-USM 4.1 also extends AlienVault\u2019s best-of-breed security monitoring capabilities to Amazon EC2 to enable greater control over hybrid environments. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLack of security visibility and control is a primary concern when businesses move workloads to the cloud,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alienvault.com%2Fcompany%2Fteam%2Frussell-spitler-vp-product-management%2Findex.html&amp;esheet=50531668&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Russ+Spitler&amp;index=3&amp;md5=4b6b4cd6191f4714721cc932c1285c42\">Russ Spitler<\/a>, VP of Product Management at AlienVault. \u201cTraditional SIEM solutions are extremely limited in their ability to monitor cloud environments, leaving companies with siloed assets and glaring holes in their security risk posture. By enabling the AV-USM platform to monitor Amazon EC2, AlienVault customers can lower their costs, optimize their IT environments and get security wherever they need it to be, without sacrificing visibility in their own private datacenters or the public cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New features in the AlienVault Unified Security Management platform 4.1 include:<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-14117\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Support for Amazon EC2: <\/strong>\u201cInstant-on\u201d essential security<br \/>\ncapabilities match the elasticity of the EC2 cloud environment and<br \/>\nenable unified security monitoring whether assets are in the cloud or<br \/>\ndata center.<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Auto-Deploy<\/strong>: Automatically identifies potential data sources<br \/>\nupon deployment with integrated discovery capabilities and removes the<br \/>\n\u201cguesswork\u201d common with traditional SIEM deployments.<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Dynamic Incident Response Templates<\/strong>: Extends SIEM functionality<br \/>\npast the alert by providing customized, contextually relevant<br \/>\nworkflow-driven response procedures so that analysts know exactly what<br \/>\nto do next.<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Suricata IDS Profile<\/strong>: Provides an alternative to the SNORT IDS<br \/>\nengine with enhanced threat detection, analysis and performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Based on the open source project OSSIM, the AV-USM platform combines more than 30 of the best security technologies and provides security analysts with five essential security capabilities including asset detection, vulnerability assessment, threat detection, behavioral monitoring and security intelligence capabilities in a single, unified solution and management console. The <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Falienvault.com%2Falienvault-labs%2Fopen-threat-exchange.1.html&amp;esheet=50531668&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=AlienVault+Open+Threat+Exchange&amp;index=5&amp;md5=9aabba02f2e1d8e34314de0bbe670df9\">AlienVault Open Threat Exchange<\/a>\u2122 is the largest community-sourced threat database and intelligence feed, and is built into the AV-USM platform and OSSIM to provide security analysts with real-time collaborative defense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since our business is completely built on IaaS providers, we need to find a way to get reliable security visibility in this environment,\u201d said Fredrick Lee, Lead Security Engineer for Twilio. \u201cA lot of traditional security solutions fall short when facing the challenges of deploying in the cloud. AlienVault USM provides a great way to deploy the security capabilities I find essential &#8211; IDS, vulnerability assessment, SIEM &#8211; quickly and completely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AlienVault has also launched a new documentation portal, the <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Falienvault.bloomfire.com%2F&amp;esheet=50531668&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=AlienVault+Repository+of+Knowledge&amp;index=6&amp;md5=967d606bb180e814586d653762e2ff89\">AlienVault Repository of Knowledge<\/a> (ARK), which complements the support forum and provides access to interactive assets, product documents and how-to videos for the larger OSSIM community.<\/p>\n<p>The latest version of the AlienVault Unified Security Management platform 4.1 is\u00a0available now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=1759bf53-b48d-405c-a203-8b0349bcffef\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/ynwjATSNsSU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest release simplifies &#038; speeds SIEM deployment, provides dynamic        security incident response across mixed cloud environments     SAN MATEO, Calif.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;AlienVault,        the leading Unified        Security Managemen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1365,1366,619,136,1367,1368,1369],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-5401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alienvault","category-alienvault-unified-security-management","category-amazon","category-amazon-aws","category-av-usm","category-ossim","category-security-engineering","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}