Growing cloud infrastructure comes with various security concerns, even when a company is using a single cloud service provider. Cloud security becomes complicated when new servers, teams, and service providers are added, and when permissions and services are changing.
Many companies balance their security concerns using a mix of temporary tools, scans, and spreadsheets, resulting in excessive alerts and very slow response times to what’s important.
This case study shows a fast growing SaaS company and how with SureCloud, they managed to simplify their cloud security, reduce alert noise, and as a result, respond to security incidents 3 times faster. This study will also include various modern cloud security best practices and market research.
About the Company
Surepass was a company a B2B SaaS company providing services to business customers across continents.
Surepass had to expand their services to include:
- AWS as a cloud provider for production workloads
- Azure to run services internally
- Kubernetes to containerize resources
Surepass was also employing CI/CD as a pipeline tool for faster production.
With upwards of an increasing number of customers and data, the management required cloud security mechanisms, but they also didn’t want to put a stop to engineering teams.
With poor cloud security and lack of Surepass’s cloud provider tools, Surepass’s teams using tools for visibility, permission, and vulnerability and compliance to funnel cloud security mechanisms, failed to simplify cloud functionalities.
Challenges Before SureCloud
The company, prior to using SureCloud, had the usual complexities with cloud security challenges.
Cloud Security Problems such as:
- not having useful contextual information
- security teams garnering hundreds of findings on a weekly, yet, most cases had a very weak noise.
Delayed Detection of Risky Changes
Misconfiguration of systems, including the wrong exposure setting, incorrect permissions, or incorrect workload exposure, often went unnoticed for long periods.
Absence of a Singular View of the Cloud
Assets, identities, workloads, and security artifacts were dispersed over a large number of security and management dashboards.
Development of Additional Resistance
Speed for developers and control for security were at odds with the existing tool’s inability to help increase the speed of delivery.
Opacity for the Leadership
Security posture, outstanding risks, and remediation status were not clearly visible to the top management.
Reason for Selecting SureCloud
SureCloud was selected as the company needed the ability to have risk visibility for the cloud in a simple manner to the existing enterprise tools.
They needed a platform that could:
- Continuously monitor cloud environments.
- Focus on Risk in Exploit Order.
- Ensure Control over false positives.
- Clarify ownership and accountability.
- Seamlessly integrate within engineering.
- We needed to support the company’s expansion into increasingly complex cloud environments.
SureCloud Helped from the First Day
Continuous Monitoring take the place of Periodic Checks.
Cloud environments and activity were continuously monitored by SureCloud as an integral part of the system.
Unified Cloud Inventory
Assets, identities, workloads, and interfaces to the Internet are tracked within a unified system.
Risk-Based Prioritization.
Teams received a prioritized list of the highest-impact risks in order to facilitate the Oversight of Risk.
SureCloud reflected the journey of the creation of a diamond clutch and a single view of the Cloud.
Faster Remediation.
Control was not prioritized over safety. Automated approval and rollback controls were provided to ensure safety, along with guided control.
Results Following Implementation
- Alert Noise Reduced by 70%
- Teams targeted resources on exploitable, high-impact, low-priority findings only.
- Security Response Increased 3x
- Critical issues were determined, assigned, and remediated at a much faster rate.
- Improved Engineering Collaboration
- The DevOps and Security teams had a single integrated platform and mutual accountability.
- Executive Visibility Improved
- Real-time dashboard access gave leadership greater visibility on posture, trends, and risk.
- Operationally Efficacious Security
- The company grew their infrastructure footprint without significative impact on operational costs.
The Importance of SureCloud for Evolving Companies
The failure of many companies is not due to the impossibility of ensuring cloud safety.
The failures are due to the inability to see the top actionable fix in a sea of fragmented tools that emit constant alerts.
SureCloud creates a space for teams to gain seamless visibility and control over the following:
- Cloud Assets
- Identity
- Privileged Access
- Vulnerabilities
- Configuration Errors
- Security Control Opportunities
- Control Deficiencies
- Prepare for Control
- Timely Actionable Security
Control the cloud and simplify security
Reduce risk, increase visibility, and secure growth with confidence.
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SureCloud is perfect for the following companies:
- SaaS companies
- Fintech companies
- Start-Ups
- Developing Enterprises using cloud infrastructure.
SureCloud is flexible.
It works on any cloud provider.
It works on AWS, on Azure, on Google Cloud, on Kubernetes and on hybrid clouds.
FAQ
Ques: In what ways is SureCloud superior to conventional CSPM solutions?
Ans: CSPM tools tend to only highlight misconfigurations. SureCloud is able to score prioritization of what poses the greatest exploitive risk and in what order should that risk be remediated.
Ques: Can SureCloud facilitate issue resolution?
Ans: SureCloud definitely can. SureCloud offers workflow enhancements, approvals, and automation, in addition to providing remediation step guidance.
Ques: Is SureCloud just for the purpose of compliance?
Ans: Definitely not. SureCloud is designed to facilitate continuous protection of the cloud, enhance operational risk visibility, and promote the mitigation of risk.
