Overview

Sysdig Secure is a comprehensive security platform designed to provide continuous security and compliance monitoring for cloud-native environments, specifically addressing the needs of modern containerized and Kubernetes infrastructures. It enables organizations to detect, prevent, and respond to security threats in real-time, ensuring robust protection throughout the container lifecycle—from development to production.

Features and Capabilities

• Runtime Threat Detection and Response: Continuously monitors running workloads, such as containers and Kubernetes clusters, for suspicious activities. Utilizing Falco, the open-source threat detection engine, it triggers real-time alerts based on predefined or custom security policies, enabling detection of threats like anomalous process behavior, file integrity changes, or suspicious network connections.
• Vulnerability Management: Scans images and running containers for vulnerabilities, providing prioritized reports to focus on critical security issues. Integrates with CI/CD pipelines to ensure images are scanned before deployment, preventing vulnerable components from reaching production.
• Cloud-Native Application Protection (CNAPP): Offers end-to-end visibility across the build, run, and respond phases of an application’s lifecycle, including scanning, runtime protection, and continuous compliance across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Compliance Enforcement: Assists organizations in meeting compliance requirements (e.g., PCI-DSS, GDPR, NIST) by automating configuration checks and providing audit-ready reports. Monitors compliance at both infrastructure and application levels.
• Kubernetes and Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM): Provides deep visibility into Kubernetes clusters, allowing teams to monitor configurations, enforce security policies, and detect misconfigurations or violations of best practices. Supports multi-cloud environments by ensuring compliance and security across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud platforms.
• Image Scanning: Scans container images for known vulnerabilities in package dependencies (e.g., OS packages, libraries). Integrates with registries and CI/CD workflows to automate image scanning throughout the development lifecycle.
• Activity Audit and Forensics: Offers a detailed audit trail of user and system activity. In case of an incident, it can reconstruct events to provide deep forensic insights, including accessed or modified files, executed commands, and user actions.
• Security Policy Management: Enables definition and enforcement of custom security policies applicable to containers, hosts, and orchestrators (Kubernetes). Allows setting up runtime policies to detect and respond to unauthorized activities.
• Integrated DevSecOps Workflow: Integrates security into the DevOps pipeline, enabling organizations to shift left on security. Provides real-time feedback to developers, facilitating quick resolution of issues before they affect production systems.