Businesses are moving to the cloud. That’s not news: we’ve been doing it since the turn of the century. However, what is worth noting is that the shift is gathering intensity. World events over the past couple of years have created a hybrid work environment and cloud-native infrastructures with an exponential number of endpoints that companies must protect from malicious attacks. 

“We are seeing from our consultancy and incident response work that attackers are becoming fluent and increasingly using cloud as an attack vector. This is not a hypothetical risk anymore, it is happening for real and it is time to act,” according to Leszek Tasiemski, VP Product Management at WithSecure. 

Our CSPM offering is not designed to be standalone; instead, it is a native citizen of the WithSecure Elements platform. We therefore plan to link various kinds of assets with users so that virtual and physical assets are combined and ownership is clear. Once we add in our experts, we can join the dots and work out the chain of attack.

As a result, we are focusing on ensuring that the detection logic is best-in-class. 

“There are a couple of things that make our offering unique,” says Tasiemski. “One is the tight integration with the whole Elements platform and the other is detection logic.” 

In terms of Elements, this is a natural widening of our award-winning platform. Therefore, CSPM slots in alongside any one of our EDR, EPP, Vulnerability Management and Collaboration Protection tools. This also means that it can be viewed in the same single-pane and implemented at the click of a button. 

The time has clearly arrived for companies to protect their cloud environments. In the public cloud, the shared responsibility model means that not all security can be supplied by that cloud provider. Much of it is the responsibility of the individual company and the line between the two can become blurred at times. Ensuring that line is clear and your company’s cyber security is taken care of is where we come in.