what does cloud insight do?

Cloud Insight continually scans your AWS environments for exposures in your AWS assets and in the underlying AWS account. As your environment changes, Cloud Insight automatically detects these changes and scans new or modified assets for exposures.

Internal Scanning

Cloud Insight deploys into your AWS environment to scan for exposures in your AWS assets from within your AWS environment.

Continuous Protection

Cloud Insight regularly scans your AWS environments to provide visibility into the exposures that could harm your business. We provide automatic protection of new assets, and we scan your environment after you resolve an exposure to confirm you addressed exposures that could harm your business.

Intelligent Remediation

Cloud Insight creates a list of curated, prioritized exposure remediation plans to help you make the right remediation decisions.

Deep Insight

Cloud Insight includes more than 80,000 exposure and configuration checks to discover the exposures and misconfigurations attackers use to penetrate your AWS environments.

Integrations

Cloud Insight integrates with third party systems such as AWS Inspector, AWS Config, and additional security based Alert Logic Custom Checks. We even have a deeply integrated workflow with Atlassian Jira.

how does cloud insight work

Cloud Insight deploys into your AWS environment to provide an exposure scanning solution, specifically for AWS, that scans from within your environment. You can implement Cloud Insight in four easy steps.

Access

Before Alert Logic can begin securing your environments, you must log into AWS to create a policy and an IAM role to allow us to access your AWS account. With this access and with CloudTrails enabled, Cloud Insight is ready to discover your AWS environment.

Discovery

Cloud Insight, via tight integration with the AWS APIs, maps out your entire AWS environment in an easy-to-use topology view. You can use this diagram to better understand your environment and visualize the distribution of threats across your network assets. Topology allows you to view a color-coded view of threats, their severities, and on which assets they exist. You can also click a region, VPC, subnet, or host to view details, and you can add a selected asset to the Watch List Assets tab on the Insight slideout message panel.

Scope Selection

Cloud Insight gives you the flexibility to define what you want to protect. Through the easy-to-use interface, you can choose to scan any and all levels of your AWS environment. Whether you need to protect a few VPCs or an entire AWS region, Cloud Insight lets you customize your level of protection.

Remediate

Using contextual analysis and patented technology, Cloud Insight determines which actions will best address your overall exposure. After each scan of your environments, Cloud Insight displays a prioritized list of exposure remediations. When you mark your remediations as resolved, Cloud Insight performs another scan to verify the resolution.

Integrate

Using our rich RESTful based APIs to integrate Cloud Insight into your own systems and workflows. Our NodeJS based framework can get you started on the road to integrated security on your terms.