McAfee’s Upgraded Cloud Security Protects Containers

McAfee on Monday launched its Cloud Workload Safety v5.1, which represents the primary resolution for open supply containers, on the RSA convention in San Francisco.

McAfee CWS v5.1 secures Docker workload and servers in private and non-private cloud environments by quarantining contaminated workloads and containers in a single click on, the corporate stated.

“McAfee Cloud Workload Safety permits organizations to safe cloud workloads and containers throughout AWS, Azure, VMware, and their non-public cloud, addressing key safety, compliance and governance necessities in order that they will speed up their enterprise within the cloud,” stated Rajiv Gupta, senior vp of the cloud safety enterprise unit at McAfee.

CWS v5.1 can be accessible within the second quarter of 2018.

Expanded Capabilities

McAfee CWS is designed to assist server safety directors on level for each non-public and public cloud information heart environments, stated Dave Bull, director of product advertising at McAfee.Infrastructure as a Service has grown quickly, he famous, with 65 p.c of organizations having a cloud-first initiative.

“McAfee has offered robust server safety expertise for years, particularly for digital environments, however as organizations rework their environments to lean on cloud platforms like AWS and Azure, our clients desired options tailor-made for the distinctive wants of the general public cloud,” Bull advised LinuxInsider.

The concept was to handle each on-premises and cloud workload safety options inside the similar administration console, which is what CWS was constructed to do, he stated.

The specter of information loss just isn’t distinctive to a cloud atmosphere, however the way you defend in opposition to that loss “when some or all your delicate info is within the cloud” requires a distinct method, Bull added.

“Automated testing for configuration or compliance assessments develop into extra essential as a result of sense of restricted visibility within the cloud, and we now have seen this with so many breaches over the previous yr due that precise downside,” he defined.

The scenario is identical in the case of different conventional threats, he stated, equivalent to denial-of-service, account hijacking, social engineering and working system-based assaults.

Rising Market

Using containers has grown quickly lately, signifies McAfee’s report, “Navigating a Cloud Sky,” launched Monday. Eighty p.c of survey respondents stated they both had been experimenting with them or utilizing them.

Regardless of that progress, solely 66 p.c had a method to use safety to containers, McAfee discovered.

“Introducing assist for containers is actually desk stakes at this level for any vendor in cloud safety,” stated Sam Bisbee, CSO at Menace Stack.

“Immediately, distributors with conventional on-premises safety choices have a steeper climb to fulfill the necessities of hybrid, multicloud and cloud-native enterprises — with parity to cloud-native safety choices,” he advised LinuxInsider.

Ninety p.c of individuals in a latest Menace Stack survey stated they might be utilizing containers inside the subsequent yr, Bisbee identified, noting that as containers proceed to proliferate, so do the safety and compliance isues that encompass them.

McAfee’s new exercise within the containers house follows Intel’s transfer to promote a majority stake within the operation to TPG, famous Paul Teich, principal analyst at Tirias Analysis. Nonetheless Intel will retain a minority stake within the agency.

“McAfee Cloud Workload Safety appears geared toward smaller managed service suppliers and at enterprise non-public clouds,” Teich advised LinuxInsider. “These are the markets each Intel and McAfee are centered on retaining as new processor options and new safety fashions are adopted sooner by the bigger public cloud suppliers.”