Aqua's Cloud VM Security is a robust solution designed to safeguard virtual machines across cloud-native environments. It offers a wide range of security features, including vulnerability scanning, malware detection, compliance monitoring, and network security enforcement. This comprehensive tool helps organizations maintain a strong security posture for their cloud VMs, ensuring alignment with compliance policies and protection against various threats.

Key Features

Vulnerability and Malware Scanning Proactively identifies security risks in cloud VMs

• Scans for known vulnerabilities
• Checks for malware presence
• Compares OS configuration against CIS Benchmark for Linux

Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Ensures VMs adhere to security standards and policies

• Alerts on system and application configuration violations
• Defines compliance baselines using built-in and custom checks
• Provides remediation steps for non-compliant VMs

Access Control and Activity Monitoring Manages and tracks user interactions with VMs

• Prevents access by specified users or groups
• Monitors file and directory operations
• Tracks user access, login attempts, and command arguments

Windows-specific Security Enhances security for Windows-based VMs

• Monitors and enforces Windows registry changes
• Secures operations on registry keywords, values, and paths
• Audits specific processes and Windows users

Network Security Provides comprehensive network protection for cloud VMs

• Offers visibility into VMs across single/hybrid cloud environments
• Automatically enforces network firewall rules
• Bases rules on VM services, IP addresses, domain names, and cloud attributes

Holistic Threat Detection Enables comprehensive threat analysis across the cloud environment

• Provides a single system of truth for event reconstruction
• Tracks suspicious activity across VMs, containers, and Kubernetes clusters
• Forms a holistic view of multi-vector attacks

Benefits

Enhanced Security Posture Strengthens overall cloud VM protection

• Reduces vulnerability exposure
• Prevents malware infections
• Ensures compliance with security standards

Streamlined Compliance Management Simplifies adherence to regulatory requirements

• Automates compliance checks
• Provides clear remediation guidance
• Reduces manual effort in maintaining compliance

Improved Threat Detection and Response Enables faster and more effective security incident handling

• Offers comprehensive visibility across cloud environments
• Facilitates quick identification of security threats
• Supports efficient incident response and forensics