Revolutionizing Cloud Security with a Unified Approach

As the world becomes increasingly digital, securing cloud infrastructure has grown more challenging for organizations. Traditional security methods are inadequate in addressing cloud environments' speed, scope, and complexity. To meet these evolving demands, Fortinet has launched Lacework FortiCNAPP. The cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) is a single, AI-driven platform that simplifies and strengthens security with unmatched visibility and protection of cloud-native applications across multiple cloud service providers.

With Lacework FortiCNAPP, companies can now fulfill all their cloud security needs from a single, AI-driven platform that simplifies and strengthens security with unmatched visibility and protection of cloud-native applications across multiple cloud service providers. This also means that organizations can simply consolidate their cloud security needs to a single vendor, solving for complexity, resources, and cloud cybersecurity skills gap challenges.

The Challenge: Complexity in Cloud Security

The cloud offers unparalleled benefits in scalability, flexibility, and cost savings, but it also brings with it new considerations, such as:

1. Lack of visibility: Traditional tools often fail to provide sufficient insight into cloud infrastructure, making it difficult for teams to understand the full scope of their security posture. Without this visibility, organizations like yours may fail to keep up with security demands, increasing the risk of breaches and their consequences.
2. Lack of expertise: As more businesses migrate to cloud environments, they are increasingly confronted with a shortage of cloud security talent. The skills gap creates additional pressure on IT and security teams, making it difficult to maintain robust security practices across multi-cloud architectures.
3. Lack of context: Even when security tools generate alerts, many organizations struggle to connect the dots and prioritize which issues to address first. Worse, fragmented data from multiple tools can confuse and hinder decision-making.

This confluence of challenges can leave your business vulnerable to a range of negative consequences, including:

• Inability to accurately prioritize risks: Without the right insights, businesses cannot properly assess which vulnerabilities pose the greatest threat.
• Wasted engineering time: Teams can waste excessive time investigating benign security alerts or false positives, diverting valuable resources from strategic initiatives.
• Delayed time-to-market: Unresolved security issues and the friction that traditional security tools impose on developers can delay the release of new products, services, and features.
• Costly breach impacts: Security breaches can have immense financial repercussions, including the reputational damage they cause.
• High operational costs: Legacy tools often have high maintenance costs without delivering the necessary security benefits.
• Increased risk of exploitation: Unpatched vulnerabilities and poor cloud configurations can lead to regulatory violations, failed audits, and potential exploitation.

Lacework FortiCNAPP: A Comprehensive Solution to Cloud Security Considerations

Lacework FortiCNAPP addresses these considerations head-on, allowing you to protect your cloud-native applications from code to cloud at every stage.

Key features of Lacework FortiCNAPP include:

• Unmatched visibility and context: The Lacework FortiCNAPP platform provides a unified view of your cloud environment, making it easier to spot and address security issues in real time. This complete visibility allows teams to gain insights across multi-cloud environments, minimizing the risk of misconfiguration and vulnerability exploitation.
• AI/ML-based threat detection: Machine learning algorithms detect anomalies and potential threats that traditional rules-based systems may miss. Advanced AI capabilities use this information to identify and respond to emerging threats and abnormal behaviors faster and more accurately.
• Code-to-cloud security: Lacework FortiCNAPP extends security from the developer's keyboard to running cloud workloads, ensuring that applications are protected at every stage of the life cycle. Integrating code security with cloud security helps DevOps team resolve security issues during development, which is the most cost-effective and timely stage to address risks.
• Composite alerts: The Lacework FortiCNAPP platform correlates multiple signals into a high-confidence composite alert rather than bombarding your teams with individual alerts. This detailed, contextual information allows for faster investigation and resolution of active threats, such as compromised credentials or cryptojacking attacks.
• Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM): With complete visibility into cloud identities and permissions, Lacework FortiCNAPP automatically pinpoints and assesses risky, overprivileged identities. By offering automated remediation guidance, organizations can right-size permissions to ensure the least privileged access, reducing the attack surface and meeting regulatory requirements.

Impact for Partners

Lacework FortiCNAPP benefits the organizations using it and creates new opportunities for partners. As businesses accelerate their move to the cloud, they need streamlined, comprehensive cloud security solutions. Fortinet's partner ecosystem can leverage Lacework FortiCNAPP to expand its service offerings, helping customers manage multi-cloud security more effectively.

Integration with AWS

Lacework FortiCNAPP delivers advanced capabilities for Amazon Web Services (AWS), offering an extra layer of functionality for AWS users. Now available on AWS Marketplace, the platform is optimized to analyze AWS CloudTrail logs, monitor EC2 instances, and identify suspicious activity, helping businesses maintain robust security in their AWS cloud environments.

Furthermore, the Lacework FortiCNAPP integration with Fortinet solutions like FortiGuard Outbreak Alerts and FortiSOAR provides customers enhanced visibility and enables them to automate and streamline responses to cloud threats.