An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
The more complex an IT environment becomes, the more likely that security ‘blind spots’ open up, giving attackers openings they can use to penetrate the enterprise.
Cloud-native deployments are particularly susceptible to this problem, because they comprise complex, hybrid IT environments with ephemeral components. Using traditional security tools to identify all the weaknesses in such situations is a losing battle.
To address these challenges, Mesh7 automatically traverses even complex, hybrid multi-cloud environments, identifying a variety of weaknesses, including behaviors that violate policies, cryptominers, and advanced persistent threat (APT) activities including lateral movement, command and control links, and data exfiltration.
Mesh7 is particularly adept at uncovering weaknesses in Kubernetes deployments with its risk trackers that identify east-west (container to container) as well as north-south (API-centric) vulnerabilities. It can also remediate certain issues, for example, by locking down access to improperly exposed resources.
Mesh7’s automatic traversal of complex hybrid topologies, however, is perhaps its most striking capability, as it can provide immediate visibility into security issues that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to uncover in a timely manner.
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