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Securing Cloud Applications from the First Line of Code
Key Takeaways:
Whiz is the largest cybersecurity company to date, operating with almost 50% of the Fortune 100 customers.
Customers face three main challenges in cloud transformation: gaining visibility, prioritizing risks, and embracing the new ownership model of cloud.
Whiz provides an API-only, agentless connector to analyze all layers of the cloud and create a graph view to identify toxic combinations of vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and exposures.
Whiz democratizes security by attributing ownership and automating workflows for development teams to remediate risks.
Achieving "zero criticals" is crucial for rapid response to zero-day vulnerabilities.
Whiz Code integrates security scanning across the entire development lifecycle, from code repositories to cloud infrastructure, to shift security left.
Whiz Defend provides cloud-native threat detection and response capabilities, leveraging the context and telemetry from the Whiz platform.
Simmons, a Whiz customer, adopted a collaborative approach to cloud security, involving business units and developers to build guardrails and preventive controls.
Securing Cloud Environments
Gaining Visibility: Whiz uses an agentless, API-based approach to analyze all layers of the cloud, from orchestration to workloads, to provide a comprehensive view.
Prioritizing Risks: Whiz correlates findings from various tools (e.g., CSPM, vulnerability scanners) into a graph view to identify "toxic combinations" that pose the highest risks.
Embracing New Ownership Model: Whiz enables the democratization of security by attributing ownership and providing remediation guidance to development teams.
Shifting Left: Securing the Code
Code and cloud are becoming one, as cloud-native technologies increasingly define the infrastructure.
Whiz Code integrates security scanning across the entire development lifecycle, from code repositories to cloud infrastructure, to shift security left.
This approach correlates findings across cloud and code, allowing developers to fix vulnerabilities at the source.
Whiz implements guardrails as policies enforced in the IDE, CI/CD, and deployment processes to prevent security mistakes.
Responding to Threats
Traditional security operations teams struggle to adapt to the unique threats and telemetry of the cloud.
Whiz Defend provides cloud-native threat detection and response capabilities, leveraging the context and telemetry from the Whiz platform.
It includes an "Incident Readiness Framework" to prepare cloud environments for incidents, accurate threat detection, and a investigation graph for effective incident response.
Simmons' Cloud Security Journey
Simmons adopted a collaborative approach, involving business units and developers in the cloud security program.
They leveraged Whiz's agentless capabilities to quickly gain visibility and reduce risks, while empowering teams to remediate issues.
Simmons is now focused on building preventive controls, or "guardrails," to shift security left in the development lifecycle.
The key lessons include the importance of co-creation, incremental steps, and building a community of users invested in the security program.
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