Cloud Security

1. Unified Security Operations

• Centralized Security Management: Provides a centralized interface to manage security operations, allowing security teams to view and respond to threats across their hybrid environments (on-premises, public cloud, private cloud).

• Security Incident Response: Supports efficient investigation and resolution of security incidents by consolidating security data and automating workflows for faster response times.

• Threat Intelligence Integration: Integrates with external threat intelligence sources to enrich security data and enhance threat detection and response.

2. AI and Automation for Threat Detection

• AI-Driven Security: Leverages AI and machine learning to analyze vast amounts of security data, identify anomalies, and detect potential threats, improving the accuracy and speed of threat detection.

• Automated Incident Response: Automates responses to security incidents, reducing manual intervention and enabling quicker resolution of security alerts and threats.

• Security Orchestration: Orchestrates workflows across different security tools and systems, allowing for seamless integration and improved efficiency in threat detection and remediation.

3. Integrated Security Tools and Capabilities

• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM): IBM Cloud Pak for Security includes built-in SIEM capabilities, offering real-time monitoring and analysis of security events and incidents across the enterprise.

• Cloud-Native Security: Supports cloud-native security features to protect workloads running in cloud environments, ensuring security for modern applications and infrastructure.

• Vulnerability Management: Identifies vulnerabilities across IT environments, prioritizing remediation efforts based on potential risk and impact.

• Identity and Access Management: Helps organizations manage user identities and enforce strong access controls to minimize the risk of unauthorized access to critical systems and data.

4. Threat Hunting and Investigation

• Advanced Threat Hunting: Empowers security teams to proactively hunt for threats across cloud and on-premises environments using advanced search, analytics, and investigation tools.

• Forensic Analysis: Provides the ability to conduct detailed forensic investigations into security incidents, helping organizations understand the full scope and root cause of a breach.

• Behavioral Analytics: Uses behavioral analytics to detect anomalous activities and patterns that may indicate security threats, enabling early detection of potential breaches.

5. Cloud Security and Compliance

• Multi-Cloud Security: Offers tools to manage security across multiple cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), ensuring that security policies and practices are consistent across hybrid cloud deployments.

• Compliance Automation: Automates compliance management, providing continuous monitoring and reporting for regulatory requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and more.

• Data Protection: Provides encryption, tokenization, and other data protection capabilities to ensure sensitive information remains secure across hybrid cloud environments.

6. Security Intelligence and Analytics

• Advanced Analytics: Offers advanced analytics and reporting features to help security teams understand security data, track trends, and make informed decisions.

• Real-Time Monitoring and Visibility: Provides real-time visibility into security events, enabling teams to detect and respond to threats as they occur.

• Customizable Dashboards: Features customizable dashboards that allow users to visualize security data according to their needs, enabling faster threat detection and response.

7. Collaboration and Integration

• Security Operations Integration: Integrates with other security tools and platforms (e.g., firewalls, endpoint protection, SIEM solutions), allowing for a unified approach to security.

• Collaboration Tools: Facilitates collaboration between security teams, incident response teams, and other stakeholders through shared workspaces and automated workflows.

• Third-Party Integrations: Supports integration with third-party security solutions, including threat intelligence providers, firewalls, and endpoint security tools, ensuring a comprehensive security ecosystem.

8. Risk Management

• Risk-Based Prioritization: Prioritizes security risks based on their potential impact on the business, enabling organizations to focus on the most critical threats and vulnerabilities.

• Risk Assessment and Reporting: Provides tools for assessing and reporting on security risks across the organization, helping security teams communicate potential risks to leadership and stakeholders.

9. Visibility and Control

• Unified Data Visibility: Offers a unified view of security data across the organization, improving situational awareness and enabling better decision-making.

• Access Control: Provides detailed access controls, enabling organizations to manage user access to security data and actions based on roles and responsibilities.

• Security Posture Management: Helps organizations continuously assess and improve their security posture, identifying areas of improvement and ensuring that security controls are in place and effective.

10. Scalable and Flexible Deployment

• Cloud-Native Architecture: Built for the cloud, offering scalable and flexible deployment options to meet the needs of organizations of any size, from small businesses to large enterprises.

• On-Premises and Hybrid Deployment: Supports both on-premises and hybrid cloud deployment models, allowing organizations to choose the deployment method that best fits their security needs.

• Scalable Security: Designed to scale as your organization grows, ensuring that security can be maintained even as environments expand and evolve.

11. Incident Response and Automation

• Automated Incident Playbooks: Automates predefined response playbooks to streamline incident management, reducing response times and minimizing the impact of security breaches.

• Incident Management Workflow: Provides a structured workflow for managing security incidents from detection through to resolution, ensuring that security teams can quickly and efficiently address threats.

1. Cloud-Based SIEM Solution

• Fully Managed Cloud Deployment: QRadar on Cloud is a fully managed cloud-based SIEM solution that offers all the capabilities of the on-premises version without the need for infrastructure management.

• Scalable and Flexible: Scales easily to meet the needs of organizations of all sizes, providing a flexible solution that adapts to growing data and security needs.

• Global Cloud Coverage: Available across multiple cloud regions to ensure high availability, redundancy, and faster response times for global operations.

2. Real-Time Security Monitoring

• Centralized Security Data: Collects and normalizes log data from a wide range of sources across your environment (on-premises, cloud, hybrid), providing centralized visibility into your security posture.

• Real-Time Event Monitoring: Monitors security events in real-time, helping organizations detect and respond to security incidents as they happen.

• Continuous Log Collection: Continuously collects logs and security data from various sources, including network devices, endpoints, servers, and applications.

3. Advanced Threat Detection and Analytics

• Correlation and Rule-Based Detection: Uses advanced correlation rules to detect suspicious patterns and behaviors across your environment, helping identify potential threats that may otherwise go unnoticed.

• Behavioral Analytics: Applies machine learning and behavioral analytics to identify deviations from normal user or system behaviors, helping to detect advanced threats and insider attacks.

• Threat Intelligence Integration: Integrates with external threat intelligence sources to enhance detection and provide context to potential security incidents.

4. Automated Incident Response

• Automated Alerting and Response: Provides automated incident response workflows and alerting, reducing the time to detect and respond to threats.

• Security Orchestration and Automation: Integrates with other security tools to automate response actions and orchestration, improving operational efficiency and speeding up threat resolution.

• Customizable Playbooks: Allows the creation of customizable response playbooks for automating specific incident response workflows.

5. Compliance and Regulatory Reporting

• Compliance Automation: Helps automate compliance processes by providing out-of-the-box reports and dashboards for regulatory standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and more.

• Predefined Compliance Dashboards: Offers dashboards tailored to specific compliance requirements, enabling security teams to easily track compliance status and ensure ongoing adherence.

• Audit Trails: Tracks and logs all actions performed in the system, providing an audit trail for security investigations and compliance audits.

6. Comprehensive Data Collection and Integration

• Wide Data Source Support: Collects data from a wide range of data sources, including cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure), on-premises infrastructure, endpoints, network devices, and more.

• APIs for Integration: Offers APIs and connectors for integrating with third-party tools and services, providing a unified security view across your infrastructure.

• Cloud-Native Integrations: Seamlessly integrates with cloud-native services and tools, ensuring comprehensive security coverage for modern cloud environments.

7. Advanced Search and Query Capabilities

• Customizable Queries: Allows users to create custom queries and searches to investigate security incidents and explore large datasets in real-time.

• Historical Data Access: Provides access to historical data and event logs, allowing teams to perform in-depth investigations and forensic analysis of past incidents.

• Rich Query Language: Offers a rich query language for creating complex searches, helping security teams uncover hidden threats or investigate incidents in detail.

8. AI and Machine Learning

• AI-Powered Threat Detection: Uses AI and machine learning algorithms to automatically detect anomalies and patterns indicative of advanced security threats.

• Anomaly Detection: Detects deviations from normal behavior, helping identify threats like insider attacks, zero-day exploits, and data exfiltration attempts.

• Continuous Learning: The platform continuously learns from data, improving threat detection accuracy and reducing false positives over time.

9. Real-Time Dashboards and Reporting

• Customizable Dashboards: Provides real-time, customizable dashboards that allow security teams to visualize data according to their specific needs.

• Security Operations Metrics: Includes dashboards for tracking key metrics such as security event volume, incident response time, and threat detection performance.

• Executive Reporting: Generates executive-level reports that summarize security posture, compliance status, and incident trends for management stakeholders.

10. Incident Investigation and Forensics

• Deep Investigations: Provides advanced investigation tools that allow security teams to drill down into incidents, analyze root causes, and determine the full scope of threats.

• Forensic Data Retention: Retains security data for extended periods, enabling forensic analysis of incidents over time.

• Timeline View: Visualizes the sequence of events leading up to and following a security incident, helping teams understand how a threat unfolded.

11. Scalable Cloud Infrastructure

• Elastic Scalability: Built to scale with your business needs, allowing you to increase or decrease your infrastructure requirements as necessary.

• Auto-Scaling: Automatically scales resources based on data volume and security event traffic, ensuring consistent performance during periods of high load.

• High Availability: Ensures high availability with a cloud-native, distributed architecture that provides redundancy and failover capabilities.

12. Cloud-Native Security Capabilities

• Cloud Workload Protection: Provides protection for workloads running in cloud environments, offering visibility and monitoring of cloud infrastructure and applications.

• Cloud Security Posture Management: Helps assess and manage the security posture of cloud resources, ensuring that they are properly configured and secure.

• Cloud Service Integration: Integrates with cloud service providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) to monitor and secure cloud resources.

1. Cloud Security Posture Management

• Cloud Application Discovery: Automatically discovers and inventories all cloud services being used across the organization (both sanctioned and unsanctioned), providing visibility into shadow IT.

• Risk Assessment: Assesses the security posture of cloud applications, evaluating them for potential risks, compliance gaps, and vulnerabilities to prevent unsafe cloud adoption.

• Policy-Based Control: Enables the creation of security policies to control access and usage of cloud applications based on risk levels, ensuring that only secure services are used.

2. User and Data Protection

• Data Loss Prevention (DLP): Protects sensitive data in cloud applications by enforcing policies that prevent accidental or malicious data exposure, leakage, or loss.

• Granular Access Control: Provides fine-grained control over user access to cloud applications, enforcing role-based access and restricting actions based on predefined policies.

• Real-Time Monitoring and Alerting: Monitors user activity in real time and provides alerts for suspicious or anomalous behavior, such as unusual access patterns or unauthorized file sharing.

• Contextual Access Control: Enforces security policies based on user context, such as device type, location, and risk assessment of the user, ensuring secure access to cloud apps.

3. Cloud Application Security

• Cloud Encryption: Provides encryption for data in transit and at rest within cloud services, ensuring that sensitive information is protected even when stored in third-party cloud environments.

• Threat Detection and Prevention: Detects and prevents threats within cloud applications, such as malware, phishing attempts, and compromised accounts, using behavioral analytics and machine learning.

• API Security: Secures APIs that cloud services use to communicate with each other, ensuring that only authorized requests are allowed, and blocking any unauthorized or malicious activity.

4. Compliance and Risk Management

• Automated Compliance Monitoring: Provides continuous monitoring and automated reporting for industry regulations and compliance standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and others.

• Compliance Reporting: Generates compliance reports that help organizations prove adherence to regulatory requirements, making it easier to undergo audits.

• Risk-Based Decision Making: Helps organizations make risk-based decisions on cloud application adoption by evaluating the security posture of applications against regulatory standards and security best practices.

5. Visibility and Reporting

• Comprehensive Reporting: Offers detailed reports on cloud application usage, risk assessment, data security, user activity, and security incidents, helping organizations track and manage their cloud security.

• Dashboards: Provides intuitive and customizable dashboards to visualize cloud application usage, security events, and compliance status in real time.

• User Activity Monitoring: Tracks user activity within cloud applications to detect any suspicious or risky behaviors, such as unauthorized access or potential data exfiltration.

6. Security Automation and Orchestration

• Automated Incident Response: Integrates with other security systems to automatically respond to security events, such as blocking risky access, quarantining compromised accounts, or terminating sessions based on predefined policies.

• Security Workflow Automation: Automates security workflows and processes across the cloud ecosystem, improving the efficiency of security operations and reducing the manual effort needed for incident response.

• Cross-Platform Orchestration: Supports integration with third-party security and IT systems, enabling seamless automation of security processes across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

7. Identity and Access Management (IAM) Integration

• Single Sign-On (SSO): Integrates with identity management systems (such as SSO) to streamline user authentication, providing secure and seamless access to cloud applications.

• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Enforces MFA for cloud application access, adding an additional layer of security by requiring users to authenticate via multiple factors.

• User Behavior Analytics (UBA): Analyzes user behavior patterns to identify anomalous or risky activity, such as compromised credentials or insider threats.

8. Advanced Threat Protection

• AI and Machine Learning: Utilizes AI and machine learning to detect anomalous activity, sophisticated threats, and potential breaches, helping to identify threats faster and reduce false positives.

• Real-Time Threat Intelligence: Leverages real-time threat intelligence to detect emerging threats and vulnerabilities, providing up-to-date protection against advanced attacks in cloud environments.

• Sandboxing: Provides cloud sandboxing capabilities to safely execute and analyze suspicious files or applications before they reach production systems.

9. Secure Access to Cloud Services

• Zero Trust Security: Implements a Zero Trust security model by continuously verifying users and devices before granting access to cloud resources, regardless of their location.

• Conditional Access: Applies policies based on user, device, and location context, ensuring that access to cloud applications is contingent on predefined security criteria.

• Cloud Application Segmentation: Enables segmentation and isolation of cloud applications, preventing lateral movement of threats across your cloud infrastructure.

10. Seamless Cloud Integration

• Cloud Platform Support: Supports integration with a variety of major cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud), enabling a seamless security experience across different cloud environments.

• Cloud-Native Architecture: Built for the cloud, offering a fully cloud-native security solution that provides elastic scalability, high availability, and reduced management overhead.

1. Cloud-Native Data Protection

• Fully Cloud-Based Solution: Druva eliminates the need for on-premises hardware and infrastructure by providing a fully cloud-native data protection platform.

• No Need for Backup Servers: The platform leverages cloud storage directly, removing the need for complex backup servers, appliances, and maintenance.

• Scalability: Provides unlimited scalability to meet the growing data protection needs of organizations, easily expanding as your data and storage requirements increase.

2. Comprehensive Data Backup

• Endpoint Data Backup: Protects data on user endpoints (laptops, desktops, mobile devices) to ensure that critical files and settings are always backed up and recoverable.

• Server and Virtual Machine Backup: Provides backup for both physical servers and virtualized environments (VMware, Hyper-V), ensuring complete protection across the infrastructure.

• Cloud Application Backup: Supports backup for cloud-based applications such as Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and Google Workspace, ensuring data remains protected even in cloud environments.

• Automated Backup Schedules: Enables automated and customizable backup schedules to ensure that data is regularly protected without manual intervention.

3. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

• Instant Data Recovery: Provides fast, easy, and reliable data recovery, minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity in the event of a disaster.

• Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS): Allows organizations to quickly recover their critical workloads and systems in case of a system failure or disaster, utilizing Druva’s cloud infrastructure.

• Global Disaster Recovery Planning: Integrates with global cloud infrastructure, ensuring that organizations can access their data and systems from anywhere, with minimal delay.

4. Cloud Archiving and Retention

• Data Archiving: Automates the archiving of data to the cloud, ensuring that inactive or historical data is stored securely and is easy to retrieve when needed.

• Long-Term Retention: Provides long-term data retention policies that comply with regulatory and business requirements, reducing the need for costly on-premises storage.

• Cost-Effective Storage: Utilizes cloud storage solutions to reduce the costs associated with maintaining legacy hardware and off-site storage.

5. Data Security and Compliance

• End-to-End Encryption: Ensures that all data is encrypted both in transit and at rest, protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access.

• Compliance with Industry Standards: Helps organizations meet compliance standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and others by offering built-in compliance features and audit capabilities.

• Granular Access Control: Provides role-based access control (RBAC) to limit user access to sensitive data, ensuring that only authorized personnel can manage backups or restore data.

• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Enhances security by requiring multiple forms of authentication before granting access to critical data and recovery options.

6. Data Analytics and Insights

• Data Insights and Reporting: Provides detailed analytics and insights into data usage, backup performance, and system health through customizable dashboards and reports.

• Performance Monitoring: Monitors backup performance, recovery times, and data growth to ensure that the platform is meeting business requirements and service-level agreements (SLAs).

• Data Trend Analysis: Offers trend analysis to identify patterns in data storage and usage, helping organizations optimize data management and plan for future capacity needs.

7. Cloud-Native Scalability and Flexibility

• Elastic Scalability: Automatically scales storage and compute resources based on demand, providing the flexibility to adjust as data needs grow or shrink.

• Global Cloud Reach: Leverages multiple global data centers, ensuring low-latency access and secure storage regardless of the organization’s geographic location.

• Integration with Public Cloud Platforms: Integrates seamlessly with major public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, offering a hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud backup strategy.

8. Easy Deployment and Management

• Zero Infrastructure Setup: Eliminates the need for complex hardware or software setups, providing a simple, cloud-based solution that requires minimal management.

• Centralized Management Console: Provides a single, easy-to-use management interface that allows administrators to oversee data protection, backup schedules, restore operations, and compliance reporting from anywhere.

• Automated Backup Policies: Allows administrators to set up automated backup policies that ensure continuous protection with minimal intervention.

9. Ransomware Protection

• Ransomware Detection and Prevention: Leverages behavioral analytics to detect potential ransomware activity, such as unusual file modifications or unauthorized data access, and prevent it from affecting backups.

• Immutable Backups: Ensures that backups are immutable and cannot be altered or deleted by ransomware attacks, ensuring data integrity and availability during recovery.

• Fast Recovery from Ransomware: Enables rapid recovery from ransomware attacks by allowing businesses to restore data to a point before the attack, minimizing disruption.

10. Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Support

• Multi-Cloud Backup: Protects data across multiple cloud environments, providing flexible backup options for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.

• Unified Management: Offers a unified platform to manage backups, archiving, and recovery processes across both on-premises and cloud environments, reducing complexity.

• Seamless Data Migration: Facilitates seamless data migration to or from the cloud, ensuring that data is efficiently moved between environments without loss or disruption.

1. AWS Backup and Recovery

• Automated Backup: Provides automated, policy-based backup for a variety of AWS resources, including EC2 instances, RDS databases, DynamoDB tables, and EFS volumes.

• Cross-Region Backup: Supports backing up AWS resources across different regions, ensuring disaster recovery options are available in multiple locations.

• Backup Scheduling: Allows users to schedule backups at specific intervals (e.g., daily, weekly), ensuring consistent and reliable protection of critical AWS workloads.

• Granular Recovery: Enables granular recovery of specific AWS resources, including individual files, databases, and EC2 instances, offering flexibility during the restoration process.

• Point-in-Time Recovery: Provides the ability to recover AWS resources to specific points in time, offering protection against data corruption or accidental deletion.

2. Cost-Effective and Scalable

• Pay-as-You-Go Pricing: Druva CloudRanger follows a pay-as-you-go pricing model based on the actual usage of AWS resources, ensuring cost-effective data protection without upfront investments.

• Scalable Backup Storage: Utilizes AWS-native storage options such as Amazon S3, ensuring that backup storage can scale as your data grows without requiring additional infrastructure management.

• Retention Policies: Offers customizable backup retention policies to manage how long backups are kept, helping organizations optimize storage costs and meet compliance requirements.

3. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

• AWS Disaster Recovery: Supports disaster recovery for AWS environments, allowing users to quickly restore their AWS workloads to ensure business continuity in the event of a failure.

• Cross-Account Recovery: Facilitates the restoration of resources across AWS accounts, which is particularly useful for managing backup and recovery in multi-account AWS architectures.

• Automated Failover: Automates failover procedures for critical workloads, ensuring minimal downtime and ensuring that services are restored quickly during an outage or disaster.

4. Backup for AWS Services

• EC2 Instance Backup: Backs up Amazon EC2 instances, preserving the state of the instance and all associated data, including EBS volumes.

• RDS Backup: Provides backup capabilities for Amazon RDS databases, enabling organizations to protect their relational databases and restore them in case of data loss or corruption.

• DynamoDB Backup: Offers backup and recovery for DynamoDB tables, allowing for point-in-time recovery of key-value data.

• EFS Backup: Ensures backup for Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) volumes, protecting file-based storage and allowing for quick recovery in the event of a failure.

• Lambda Backup: Supports backup for AWS Lambda functions, ensuring that critical serverless workloads are protected.

5. Compliance and Security

• End-to-End Encryption: Ensures that all backup data is encrypted both in transit and at rest, offering a high level of security for sensitive data.

• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Allows administrators to define user roles and permissions, ensuring that only authorized users can access, manage, or restore backups.

• Compliance-Ready: Helps meet industry compliance requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 by providing secure backup solutions and detailed reporting for audit purposes.

6. Simplified Management and Monitoring

• Centralized Management Console: Offers a single, user-friendly console for managing all backup and recovery operations across AWS accounts and regions.

• Automated Backup Management: Automates the creation, monitoring, and management of backup schedules, reducing the administrative overhead associated with AWS backup tasks.

• Backup Monitoring: Provides real-time monitoring of backup and recovery jobs, sending alerts in case of failures or issues, ensuring quick resolution of backup-related problems.

• Audit and Reporting: Provides detailed audit trails and backup reports to track backup status, recovery activities, and resource usage, assisting in compliance audits and reporting.

7. Backup for Cloud-Native Applications

• Container and Kubernetes Backup: Supports backup for containerized applications running in AWS environments, including workloads on Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service).

• Backup for AWS CloudFormation: Protects infrastructure as code by backing up AWS CloudFormation templates and configurations, ensuring that infrastructure deployments can be restored.

• Support for Third-Party Applications: Supports backup for third-party applications running on AWS, providing flexibility for mixed workloads in cloud environments.

8. Automation and Integration

• API Integration: Supports integration with AWS APIs, allowing organizations to automate backup and recovery tasks through custom scripts or third-party tools.

• CloudFormation Templates: Uses CloudFormation templates to automate the deployment and configuration of backup environments, ensuring consistency and ease of management.

• Event-Driven Automation: Triggers backup and recovery operations based on predefined events, such as system changes or user actions, improving operational efficiency.

9. Restore and Migration Capabilities

• Multi-Cloud Restore: Provides the ability to restore AWS workloads to other cloud environments (e.g., Azure or Google Cloud), supporting cloud migration and hybrid cloud architectures.

• Instant Recovery: Allows organizations to instantly restore AWS resources to minimize downtime and ensure rapid recovery from failures or outages.

10. Backup and Restore for Multi-Account and Multi-Region

• Multi-Region Support: Ensures that backup and recovery processes are available across different AWS regions, providing redundancy and disaster recovery options in geographically diverse locations.

• Multi-Account Management: Supports backup and recovery of resources spread across multiple AWS accounts, making it easier for large organizations or managed service providers to protect their entire AWS infrastructure.

1. Cloud-Native Data Protection

• Cloud-First Design: Druva’s platform is built from the ground up for the cloud, providing a fully cloud-native solution without the need for on-premises infrastructure.

• Multi-Cloud Support: Supports data protection for workloads across public clouds (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and private clouds, enabling seamless integration in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

• Global Data Protection: Provides worldwide backup and recovery capabilities, ensuring that data is protected and available across geographies.

2. Backup and Recovery

• Automated Backup: Enables automated backup for all types of data (endpoints, servers, cloud applications, virtual machines) without manual intervention.

• Granular Recovery: Supports granular recovery of specific files, applications, and workloads, allowing organizations to recover data from a specific point in time.

• Point-in-Time Recovery: Facilitates recovery to specific points in time to mitigate the impact of accidental deletion, corruption, or ransomware attacks.

• Fast Recovery: Provides instant restore capabilities for rapid recovery, minimizing downtime and business disruption in the event of data loss.

3. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

• Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS): Built-in disaster recovery capabilities enable organizations to rapidly recover workloads and applications, ensuring business continuity during system failures or disasters.

• Automated Failover and Failback: Automated failover to the cloud and failback to on-premises or alternate locations, ensuring high availability and minimizing recovery time objectives (RTOs).

• Cross-Region and Cross-Account Recovery: Supports disaster recovery across different cloud regions and accounts, improving resilience and disaster recovery options.

• Replication: Continuous replication of data to secure locations, ensuring that critical data is protected and can be recovered quickly.

4. Data Governance and Compliance

• Compliance Reporting: Provides built-in compliance tools and reporting features for meeting regulatory standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2.

• Data Retention Policies: Allows customizable data retention policies to manage how long data is stored and to comply with legal and industry regulations.

• Legal Hold and E-Discovery: Offers legal hold functionality to preserve data in case of litigation, enabling e-discovery for legal and compliance purposes.

• Audit Trails: Detailed audit logs of all data protection activities for compliance tracking and forensic investigations.

5. Advanced Security Features

• End-to-End Encryption: Ensures data is encrypted at rest and in transit, safeguarding sensitive information from unauthorized access.

• Ransomware Protection: Protects against ransomware attacks by ensuring backups are immutable and can be restored to a clean state, even in the event of an attack.

• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Enables fine-grained control over user permissions and access, ensuring only authorized personnel can manage or restore data.

• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Enhances security by requiring multiple forms of authentication for accessing sensitive data and backup settings.

6. Endpoint Protection

• Cross-Platform Backup: Supports backup for various endpoints, including Windows, macOS, and mobile devices, ensuring data protection for remote or mobile workers.

• Centralized Management: Provides a single console to manage and monitor endpoint backups, ensuring data is securely backed up regardless of the device location.

• Offline Backup: Enables offline backup for endpoints when they are not connected to the internet, ensuring continuous protection even in low-connectivity scenarios.

7. Cloud Application Backup

• Microsoft 365 Backup: Protects Microsoft 365 data, including emails, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams, offering backup, recovery, and retention for cloud-based office tools.

• Google Workspace Backup: Provides backup and recovery for Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), covering Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, and other cloud-based apps.

• Salesforce Backup: Supports backup for Salesforce data, ensuring CRM data is protected and can be restored when needed.

• Other SaaS Applications: Protects a wide range of other SaaS applications, providing data protection for cloud-native business solutions.

8. Cost Management and Optimization

• Pay-as-You-Go Pricing: Flexible, pay-as-you-go pricing model based on actual usage, ensuring that organizations only pay for the resources they use without any upfront costs.

• Storage Optimization: Utilizes cloud storage effectively, reducing the need for expensive on-premises hardware and optimizing storage costs with features like deduplication and compression.

• Automated Storage Tiering: Moves older or infrequently accessed data to lower-cost storage tiers, ensuring that organizations optimize storage costs while maintaining access to their data.

9. Data Analytics and Insights

• Backup Monitoring and Alerts: Provides real-time monitoring of backup status, offering automated alerts in case of failures or issues, enabling quick resolution and minimizing downtime.

• Performance Dashboards: Customizable dashboards to track data protection performance, backup success rates, and restore times, helping administrators optimize backup strategies.

• Data Insights: Delivers insights into data usage, trends, and patterns, allowing organizations to make informed decisions about their data protection strategies.

10. Scalability and Flexibility

• Global Scalability: Built to scale with your business, providing backup and recovery capabilities for workloads in any geographic location, from edge devices to the cloud.

• Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Leverages the scalability of public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, allowing organizations to scale backup operations as their data grows.

• Integration with Existing Infrastructure: Easily integrates with existing IT environments, including on-premises systems, public cloud services, and hybrid cloud infrastructures.

1. Complete Backup for Microsoft 365 Data

• Exchange Online Backup: Protects emails, attachments, calendars, contacts, and other critical data in Exchange Online, ensuring full recovery in case of accidental deletion or corruption.

• OneDrive for Business Backup: Backs up files stored in OneDrive for Business, safeguarding personal and shared files against data loss due to accidental deletion, ransomware, or user errors.

• SharePoint Online Backup: Secures SharePoint Online data, including sites, lists, and documents, ensuring business continuity and compliance for SharePoint-based content.

• Microsoft Teams Backup: Provides protection for Teams data, including messages, chat histories, files, and meeting recordings, ensuring communication and collaboration data is always protected.

• Group and Planner Data Backup: Backs up Microsoft 365 Groups, Planner, and other related collaboration tools, ensuring that project data and team workflows are recoverable.

2. Automated and Scheduled Backups

• Policy-Based Scheduling: Allows users to define backup policies and schedules, automating backup operations to run at regular intervals, ensuring consistent protection without manual intervention.

• Continuous Backup: Enables continuous data protection for Microsoft 365, ensuring that every change made in your Microsoft 365 environment is backed up without delay.

• Flexible Backup Frequency: Customize backup frequency based on business needs, whether you require hourly, daily, or weekly backups for specific data sets.

3. Granular and Full Recovery Options

• Granular Restore: Supports granular restore capabilities, allowing users to recover individual items (emails, files, calendar entries, chat messages) or entire accounts, sites, and mailboxes as needed.

• Point-in-Time Recovery: Provides the ability to restore data from specific points in time, helping recover from data corruption, human errors, or ransomware attacks.

• Full Site or User Recovery: Full backup and restore for entire SharePoint sites, OneDrive accounts, or Teams channels, allowing organizations to recover all or a subset of their Microsoft 365 environment.

• Restore to Original or New Locations: Data can be restored to the original location or to a new destination within Microsoft 365, offering flexibility during recovery processes.

4. Cloud-Native, No Hardware Required

• Fully Cloud-Based: Druva’s solution is entirely cloud-native, meaning no on-premises hardware or infrastructure is needed, reducing overhead and operational complexity.

• Scalable Storage: Leverages the scalability of the cloud to store backups without the need for additional storage hardware, ensuring that the solution grows with your organization’s needs.

• Zero Infrastructure Management: Druva’s fully managed cloud service means there is no need to manage infrastructure, giving teams more time to focus on core tasks.

5. Advanced Security and Compliance

• End-to-End Encryption: Ensures all Microsoft 365 data is encrypted both in transit and at rest, meeting the highest security standards and protecting against unauthorized access.

• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Enhances security by requiring MFA to access backup settings or perform restores, ensuring only authorized users can manage backups.

• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Provides granular access control, ensuring that only authorized users can configure backup settings or perform recovery tasks.

• Compliance and Reporting: Helps organizations meet compliance requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 with built-in reporting features, audit logs, and retention controls for Microsoft 365 data.

6. Ransomware Protection and Data Integrity

• Immutable Backups: Backups are immutable, meaning they cannot be modified or deleted by unauthorized users, providing protection against ransomware or malicious actions.

• Ransomware Detection: Offers built-in ransomware detection capabilities to identify unusual activity or encryption patterns within the backup data, enabling quick responses to potential threats.

• Data Integrity Checks: Regular integrity checks are performed on backups to ensure that data remains consistent and recoverable, reducing the risk of corrupted backups.

7. Simple and Efficient Management

• Centralized Management Console: Provides a single, easy-to-use console to manage all Microsoft 365 backups, configure backup policies, and monitor the health of backup operations.

• Unified Dashboard: Displays backup status, restore requests, and health monitoring in a centralized dashboard, allowing admins to quickly assess the state of their backup environment.

• Automated Notifications and Alerts: Sends automated alerts and notifications for backup failures, restore requests, and compliance issues, helping administrators take quick action.

8. Backup for External Sharing and Collaboration Data

• Shared Data Protection: Backs up externally shared data in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online, protecting files that are shared with external partners or collaborators.

• Data Ownership Tracking: Tracks data ownership and access to ensure shared data is properly protected and can be restored if needed, preventing data loss due to unauthorized sharing or access.

9. Seamless Integration with Microsoft 365

• Native Integration: Druva seamlessly integrates with Microsoft 365, ensuring that backup and recovery operations are native and do not require complex setup or configuration.

• No Impact on Microsoft 365 Performance: Backup operations are designed to run without impacting the performance of the Microsoft 365 environment, allowing users to continue their work without interruptions.

• API-Driven: Leverages Microsoft 365 APIs for seamless and non-intrusive integration, ensuring that data protection operations do not disrupt the normal operation of Microsoft 365 services.

10. Cost Efficiency and Scalability

• Pay-as-You-Go Pricing: The solution offers a flexible pricing model based on usage, ensuring organizations only pay for the data they back up without large upfront costs or hidden fees.

• Cloud Storage Efficiency: Druva’s intelligent cloud storage usage ensures that organizations can scale their data protection efforts without worrying about storage limitations or costs associated with traditional backup solutions.

• Elastic Scalability: The cloud-based nature of the solution ensures that it can scale automatically with growing Microsoft 365 environments, providing elastic storage and backup capabilities.

1. Comprehensive Backup for Google Workspace Data

• Gmail Backup: Backs up emails, attachments, contacts, and threads, protecting against accidental deletion, corruption, and malicious attacks.

• Google Drive Backup: Protects files, folders, and shared drives in Google Drive, ensuring that all documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other files are backed up and recoverable.

• Google Calendar Backup: Backs up calendar events, meeting information, and reminders, ensuring that your scheduling data is always safe.

• Google Contacts Backup: Backs up all contacts stored in Google Workspace, protecting personal and organizational contact information from loss.

• Google Sites and Google Keep Backup: Protects Google Sites content, including internal websites, and Google Keep notes, ensuring collaboration data is preserved.

2. Automated and Scheduled Backups

• Policy-Based Scheduling: Set backup policies that automatically schedule backups based on your organization’s needs (e.g., daily, weekly, or custom intervals), ensuring that data is always up-to-date.

• Continuous Backup: Supports continuous backup, ensuring that any changes made to Google Workspace data (emails, files, etc.) are backed up in real time.

• Flexible Backup Intervals: You can set the backup frequency to meet specific requirements, whether that’s hourly for high-priority data or less frequently for low-priority data.

3. Granular Recovery Options

• Granular Restore: Provides the ability to restore specific items such as individual emails, files, calendar events, or contacts, making it easy to recover data without needing to restore entire accounts or applications.

• Point-in-Time Recovery: Allows for recovery from a specific point in time, which is useful when restoring data from before an incident like a malicious deletion, corruption, or ransomware attack.

• Full User or Data Recovery: In addition to granular restore, you can also perform full account or full data recovery, allowing organizations to quickly restore entire user accounts or business-critical files and emails.

• Restore to Original or Custom Locations: Data can be restored to its original location or to a custom location, giving administrators flexibility in recovery scenarios.

4. Cloud-Native, No Hardware Required

• Cloud-First Solution: Druva’s backup solution is fully cloud-based, eliminating the need for on-premises infrastructure and ensuring scalability, flexibility, and minimal operational overhead.

• Scalability: As a cloud-native solution, Druva scales automatically as your Google Workspace environment grows, ensuring that backup processes can grow with your data.

• No Infrastructure Management: Druva manages the infrastructure, meaning your IT teams can focus on other strategic tasks instead of managing backup hardware and software.

5. Advanced Security and Compliance Features

• End-to-End Encryption: All backup data is encrypted both in transit and at rest, ensuring that your Google Workspace data is protected against unauthorized access and meets the highest security standards.

• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Protects backup access by requiring MFA for logging in to the Druva console, further securing your backup environment.

• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Provides granular access control, allowing you to assign specific permissions to users and administrators based on roles and responsibilities.

• Compliance Support: Helps meet regulatory requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 with built-in audit logs, retention controls, and compliance reporting features.

• Immutable Backups: Druva ensures that backups cannot be modified or deleted by unauthorized users, adding an extra layer of protection against ransomware and malicious activities.

6. Ransomware Protection and Data Integrity

• Ransomware Detection: Built-in ransomware protection helps detect anomalous data behavior patterns and potential ransomware attacks, enabling proactive responses to emerging threats.

• Immutable Backups: With immutable backups, data cannot be tampered with or deleted, making it resistant to ransomware attacks and ensuring a clean recovery environment.

• Data Integrity Checks: Regular data integrity checks ensure that all backed-up data is consistent and free from corruption, giving confidence in recovery capabilities.

7. Simple Management and User-Friendly Interface

• Centralized Management Console: A single, intuitive console to manage, monitor, and configure backup and recovery settings for your entire Google Workspace environment.

• Unified Dashboard: Provides a consolidated view of backup statuses, restore requests, and overall backup health, allowing administrators to quickly assess backup operations.

• Automated Alerts and Notifications: Receive real-time alerts about backup failures, restore progress, or other critical issues, enabling administrators to take quick corrective action.

• Customizable Reporting: Generate backup and recovery reports to track success rates, failures, and compliance statuses, ensuring visibility into your organization’s data protection efforts.

8. Cost-Efficiency and Scalability

• Pay-as-You-Go Pricing: Druva offers flexible, pay-as-you-go pricing based on the amount of data you need to back up, ensuring that organizations only pay for the storage they use.

• Storage Optimization: Built-in features like deduplication and compression optimize storage usage, reducing the overall cost of backup while maximizing efficiency.

• Elastic Storage: As a cloud-native solution, Druva offers unlimited scalability, ensuring that as your data grows, your backup capacity grows without the need for additional hardware or complex configurations.

9. External Sharing and Collaboration Data Protection

• Shared Data Protection: Protects files that are shared externally via Google Drive, ensuring that external collaborators’ data is also backed up and recoverable.

• Data Ownership and Access Tracking: Ensures that shared files, calendars, and contacts are properly tracked and protected, so that collaboration does not introduce vulnerabilities in data recovery.

10. Seamless Integration with Google Workspace

• Native Integration with Google Workspace: Druva integrates directly with Google Workspace, providing seamless data backup and recovery without the need for complex configurations or external tools.

• No Impact on Workspace Performance: Druva’s solution runs in the background, ensuring that the performance of your Google Workspace applications is unaffected by backup operations.

• API-Driven Integration: Uses Google Workspace APIs for easy integration, ensuring that data is protected with minimal impact to daily business operations.

1. Comprehensive Cloud Security Assessment

• Cloud Platform Support: Provides continuous monitoring and security assessment for major cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and GCP.

• Security and Compliance Benchmarks: Uses industry-standard benchmarks such as CIS (Center for Internet Security) and NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) to assess cloud configurations and ensure compliance.

• Configuration Drift Detection: Automatically identifies any configuration drift from secure baselines, allowing users to quickly rectify issues before they turn into security vulnerabilities.

• Risk Scoring and Prioritization: Offers risk scores based on misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and compliance violations, allowing organizations to prioritize remediation efforts.

2. Real-Time Security Monitoring and Alerts

• Continuous Monitoring: Continuously monitors cloud environments for potential security misconfigurations, unauthorized changes, or policy violations.

• Instant Alerts: Provides real-time alerts when issues are detected, such as potential data exposure, insecure storage, open ports, or misconfigured IAM (Identity and Access Management) policies.

• Automated Response Capabilities: In some cases, it can trigger automated remediation workflows to correct security issues as soon as they are identified, reducing the time to resolution.

• Customizable Alert Rules: Allows users to configure custom alerting rules to align with their organization’s specific cloud security policies and priorities.

3. Automated Remediation and Policy Enforcement

• Automated Remediation: Leverages automated workflows to fix common misconfigurations (e.g., overly permissive security groups, unencrypted storage) to prevent security risks from escalating.

• Policy as Code: Helps organizations define security policies in code, ensuring consistent enforcement of security standards across their cloud environments.

• Custom Policies: Users can create custom security policies tailored to their specific environment, business needs, or regulatory requirements.

• Remediation Recommendations: Provides actionable remediation guidance that helps users fix security misconfigurations manually or through automated processes.

4. Visibility and Reporting

• Comprehensive Dashboards: Offers intuitive dashboards that provide an overview of security posture, risk levels, and compliance status across all cloud environments.

• Detailed Security Insights: Displays detailed insights into cloud infrastructure, highlighting misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and security risks for each cloud account or project.

• Compliance Reports: Provides ready-to-use compliance reports (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2) that make it easier for organizations to demonstrate adherence to regulatory frameworks.

• Audit Logs: Maintains an audit trail of all security-related events, changes, and activities, allowing for easy tracking and review of compliance and security incidents.

5. Identity and Access Management (IAM) Security

• IAM Risk Detection: Identifies misconfigurations and weaknesses in Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, such as overly permissive roles, excessive user permissions, and weak authentication practices.

• Least Privilege Enforcement: Helps enforce least privilege access principles by monitoring and controlling the creation and assignment of IAM roles and permissions.

• Access Review and Reporting: Provides detailed reports on user access to cloud resources, helping organizations conduct regular access reviews to prevent unauthorized access.

6. Cloud Network Security

• Network Configuration Analysis: Analyzes cloud network configurations, such as security groups, firewalls, and VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) settings, to ensure that they follow best security practices.

• Open Ports Detection: Identifies exposed ports that could potentially be exploited by attackers, helping reduce the attack surface of cloud resources.

• Segmentation Review: Evaluates network segmentation to ensure sensitive data and critical infrastructure are properly isolated and protected from unauthorized access.

7. Vulnerability and Risk Management

• Cloud Vulnerability Scanning: Scans for vulnerabilities in cloud resources and services, such as outdated software versions, unpatched instances, and insecure configurations.

• Automated Risk Assessment: Provides risk assessments based on discovered vulnerabilities, enabling security teams to prioritize their remediation efforts.

• Patch Management Integration: Integrates with patch management systems to track the status of patches and ensure that known vulnerabilities are addressed in a timely manner.

8. Integration and Extensibility

• API Integrations: Offers robust API integrations with cloud providers and third-party security tools, allowing for seamless data exchange and automated workflows.

• SIEM and SOAR Integrations: Can be integrated with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms for a more cohesive security ecosystem.

• Ticketing System Integration: Integrates with ticketing systems (e.g., Jira, ServiceNow) to automatically generate tickets for security incidents and track remediation efforts.

9. Multi-Cloud Security Management

• Cross-Cloud Visibility: Provides visibility and security posture management across multiple cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) from a single platform.

• Cross-Cloud Security Policies: Allows organizations to define and enforce consistent security policies across different cloud providers, ensuring that security controls are uniformly applied.

• Multi-Cloud Risk Assessment: Conducts risk assessments that span multiple clouds, identifying security gaps that might arise from using different cloud providers.

10. Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning

• Behavioral Analytics: Uses machine learning and behavioral analytics to detect anomalies in cloud activity, helping identify potential threats such as misconfigurations or unauthorized changes.

• Automated Insights: Provides automated insights and recommendations based on cloud data, helping security teams prioritize remediation efforts based on the severity and risk of issues.

1. Real-Time Infrastructure Monitoring

• Comprehensive Infrastructure Monitoring: Monitor servers, containers, databases, and cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), providing real-time visibility into the health and performance of your infrastructure.

• Custom Metrics and Dashboards: Create custom dashboards and track specific metrics relevant to your business, allowing for highly personalized monitoring of infrastructure performance.

• Infrastructure Alerts: Set up thresholds and automatic alerts for critical infrastructure metrics, such as CPU usage, memory consumption, disk I/O, and network traffic, to proactively manage issues before they affect users.

2. Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

• End-to-End Distributed Tracing: Trace requests across multiple services and applications to understand the entire lifecycle of a request, identifying performance bottlenecks in real time.

• Service Performance Metrics: Monitor the health and performance of microservices, APIs, and distributed applications, providing key insights into response times, error rates, and latency.

• Transaction Tracing: Capture and visualize transactions as they move across systems, helping to pinpoint issues and optimize application performance.

• Error Tracking: Detect, analyze, and track errors in real-time, providing context-rich error reports that make it easier to diagnose and resolve issues.

3. Log Management and Analytics

• Centralized Log Management: Collect, search, and analyze logs from all your applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments in a centralized location.

• Log Processing and Filtering: Automatically categorize, tag, and filter logs to provide actionable insights and reduce noise.

• Log-Based Metrics: Convert logs into metrics for custom monitoring and alerting, allowing for deeper analysis and correlation with other system data.

• Advanced Search and Querying: Perform powerful searches using Datadog’s query language to uncover trends and investigate issues within logs.

• Real-Time Log Analytics: Gain real-time insights into logs and identify patterns, anomalies, and trends in your environment for faster troubleshooting.

4. Cloud Infrastructure & Network Monitoring

• Cloud Provider Integrations: Monitor cloud services and environments, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and more, providing visibility into cloud resources and services.

• Network Performance Monitoring: Track network performance metrics such as throughput, latency, and error rates across your cloud and on-premises infrastructure.

• Cloud Cost Management: Analyze cloud spending and usage, providing insights into cost trends and helping optimize cloud infrastructure usage for cost efficiency.

• Cloud Security Monitoring: Provides visibility into security incidents across cloud environments, detecting unusual activity or misconfigurations that could lead to potential threats.

5. Synthetic Monitoring

• Simulate User Interactions: Use synthetic monitoring to simulate user interactions with your web applications to monitor uptime, availability, and performance.

• Multi-Region Monitoring: Test your applications’ performance from different global locations to ensure high availability and responsiveness across regions.

• Real-World Transaction Simulation: Simulate real user transactions and monitor the end-to-end experience to proactively identify performance issues before they impact customers.

6. Real-Time Analytics and Dashboards

• Customizable Dashboards: Build interactive, customizable dashboards that integrate data from across the stack—applications, infrastructure, cloud, logs, and metrics—giving you a unified view of your operations.

• Advanced Visualizations: Use a wide variety of visualizations, including heatmaps, timeseries graphs, and scatter plots, to understand data trends and gain deeper insights into system performance.

• Dynamic Filtering: Filter and drill down into specific metrics, tags, or time ranges for granular visibility into performance data, facilitating faster troubleshooting.

• Collaboration Features: Share dashboards and reports across teams to ensure everyone has visibility into the most critical metrics and incidents.

7. Anomaly Detection and AI-Powered Insights

• Machine Learning-Based Anomaly Detection: Leverage Datadog’s machine learning algorithms to automatically detect anomalies in infrastructure, application performance, and logs, and alert teams before they impact operations.

• Predictive Analytics: Use predictive analytics to forecast future performance trends based on historical data, allowing teams to address potential issues before they occur.

• Dynamic Alerting: Set up dynamic alert thresholds that adjust automatically based on historical data and trends, reducing alert fatigue and increasing response accuracy.

8. Security Monitoring and Compliance

• Security Monitoring: Detect security threats and vulnerabilities in your infrastructure by continuously monitoring for suspicious activity, unauthorized access, and misconfigurations.

• Cloud Security Posture Management: Ensure your cloud environments are configured securely and compliant with industry standards and best practices.

• Vulnerability Management: Track vulnerabilities across infrastructure and applications, prioritize based on risk, and monitor remediation efforts to keep systems secure.

• Compliance Dashboards: Monitor security and compliance status with pre-configured dashboards for frameworks like PCI-DSS, SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA.

9. Kubernetes & Container Monitoring

• Kubernetes Cluster Monitoring: Monitor the health, resource utilization, and performance of Kubernetes clusters, including nodes, pods, and containers.

• Container Orchestration Insights: Gain detailed insights into containerized environments, including container performance metrics, logs, and service dependencies.

• Microservices Monitoring: Track microservice dependencies within containers and Kubernetes, enabling teams to identify issues at the service level and improve reliability.

• Auto-Discovery of Services: Automatically discover and monitor containerized services in real time, ensuring accurate tracking of application performance and status.

10. Incident Management and Collaboration

• Alerting and Notification Integration: Integrates with popular incident management tools such as Slack, PagerDuty, and Opsgenie to send real-time alerts and notifications when anomalies or critical incidents occur.

• Root Cause Analysis: Correlate metrics, logs, and traces to quickly diagnose and resolve the root cause of issues, reducing time spent on troubleshooting and improving incident response times.

• Collaboration Tools: Enable cross-team collaboration with shared dashboards, incident management workflows, and real-time chat, ensuring faster resolution of issues.

• Custom Alerting Rules: Define custom alerting rules that match your organization’s unique requirements and processes, helping to streamline incident response.

1. Cloud-Native Security Monitoring

• Cloud Integrations: Out-of-the-box integrations with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and services such as containers and Kubernetes for comprehensive security monitoring in cloud environments.

• Centralized Log Collection: Collect and centralize security logs from various sources such as cloud platforms, servers, applications, network devices, and security tools to provide a unified view of security events.

• Real-Time Event Monitoring: Monitor and analyze security events in real time, enabling quick identification and response to security incidents across your cloud infrastructure.

2. Advanced Security Analytics

• Machine Learning-Powered Anomaly Detection: Utilizes machine learning algorithms to identify unusual behavior and anomalies in security events, network traffic, or system activity, helping to detect zero-day attacks and other advanced threats.

• Behavioral Analytics: Leverages historical data and behavioral models to detect abnormal patterns, unauthorized access attempts, or malicious activity, allowing teams to proactively address security risks.

• Security Correlation: Correlates different data points, such as logs, metrics, and traces, to uncover hidden security threats and provide deeper insights into potential vulnerabilities or breaches.

• Threat Intelligence Integration: Integrates with external threat intelligence feeds to enrich data with indicators of compromise (IOCs) and known threat actor behavior, helping to identify emerging threats.

3. Automated Incident Response

• Alerting and Notification: Set up customized alert rules based on security thresholds and abnormal behavior, ensuring that relevant teams are notified when an incident occurs.

• Automated Remediation: Integrates with automated workflows to take predefined actions in response to certain events or alerts, such as blocking IP addresses, isolating compromised hosts, or invoking specific remediation scripts.

• Incident Investigation and Resolution: Provides detailed logs, traces, and context to help security teams investigate incidents, identify the root cause, and resolve issues faster, minimizing the impact of security breaches.

4. Comprehensive Compliance and Reporting

• Pre-Built Compliance Templates: Includes templates for key security and compliance frameworks such as PCI DSS, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and NIST, helping organizations maintain compliance with industry standards.

• Audit Trails and Forensics: Provides full audit trails of security events, user activity, and administrative actions, enabling teams to conduct forensic investigations and demonstrate compliance.

• Automated Compliance Reporting: Generate detailed compliance reports that are tailored to regulatory requirements, streamlining the process of audits and reducing the manual workload for security and compliance teams.

• Historical Data Retention: Offers scalable retention of security data (logs, events, etc.) for historical analysis and compliance audits, ensuring that data is available for the duration required by industry regulations.

5. Customizable Dashboards and Visualization

• Custom Security Dashboards: Create tailored dashboards that visualize key security metrics, incidents, and data from various sources, providing a comprehensive view of security posture.

• Real-Time Data Visualization: Use real-time data visualizations (e.g., heatmaps, timeseries graphs, and bar charts) to monitor and analyze security events, threats, and trends as they occur.

• Interactive Filtering: Interactive filtering and drill-down capabilities to quickly pivot from high-level overviews to detailed insights, allowing teams to investigate incidents at a granular level.

6. Threat Detection and Prevention

• Cloud Security Posture Monitoring: Continuously assess cloud infrastructure for misconfigurations and security vulnerabilities, ensuring that security policies are followed and that cloud environments are secure.

• Intrusion Detection: Monitors network traffic and system activity for indicators of malicious activity such as intrusion attempts, lateral movement, or data exfiltration.

• Risk Scoring and Prioritization: Assign risk scores to security incidents based on severity, giving security teams the ability to prioritize their response efforts based on potential impact.

7. Seamless Integrations and Extensibility

• Native Integrations with Security Tools: Integrates with a wide range of security and IT operations tools, such as firewalls, identity providers, endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools, and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms.

• Cloud and On-Premises Integrations: Supports a hybrid environment, providing visibility into both cloud-based and on-premises security events and incidents.

• API Access: Offers APIs to integrate Datadog Cloud SIEM data with other internal or third-party systems for extended use cases and custom automation.

8. Collaboration and Incident Management

• Integrated Incident Management: Easily track and manage security incidents, from detection to resolution, using integrated workflows that ensure consistent incident handling across teams.

• Collaboration Tools: Provide cross-team collaboration by sharing security data, incidents, and alerts with relevant teams (e.g., security, DevOps, IT), ensuring effective communication and response during incidents.

• Case Management: Build incident cases that gather related information for investigation, assigning tasks and tracking the progress of remediation activities.

9. Scalability and Performance

• Elastic Scalability: As a cloud-native solution, Datadog Cloud SIEM scales automatically with your cloud infrastructure, enabling you to handle increasing volumes of data without performance degradation.

• High-Volume Data Handling: Capable of handling large volumes of logs and security data from diverse sources, ensuring comprehensive coverage across large and complex environments.

1. Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

• Continuous Security Monitoring: Continuously monitor cloud infrastructure for misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and risks across major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP.

• Cloud Configuration Assessment: Assess cloud environments for compliance with best practices and industry standards (e.g., CIS, NIST, PCI-DSS, SOC 2).

• Security Policy Enforcement: Automatically detect and enforce security policies to ensure compliance and reduce the risk of data breaches.

• Automated Remediation: Integrates with cloud management APIs to automatically fix misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, ensuring the security posture is always up to date.

2. Threat Detection and Risk Management

• Cloud Threat Detection: Identify suspicious activity and potential threats, such as unauthorized access, unusual network behavior, and signs of misconfigured cloud resources.

• Behavioral Analytics: Use behavioral analysis to detect anomalous behavior patterns across cloud services, network traffic, and user activity.

• Risk Scoring: Assign risk scores to cloud resources, workloads, and configurations based on their vulnerability, exposure, and compliance status, allowing teams to prioritize remediation efforts.

3. Cloud Network Security

• VPC Flow Log Analysis: Monitor and analyze Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs for potential threats and anomalous traffic patterns within the cloud network.

• Network Traffic Analysis: Track inbound and outbound traffic to detect vulnerabilities and potential misconfigurations that could expose the environment to attack.

• Segmentation and Access Control: Ensure that proper segmentation and access control policies are implemented to minimize lateral movement and exposure of sensitive data.

4. Identity and Access Management (IAM) Security

• IAM Policy Auditing: Audit and analyze cloud IAM policies to detect excessive permissions, privilege escalation risks, and other misconfigurations that could lead to unauthorized access.

• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Ensure that roles and permissions are appropriately defined and enforced to minimize the attack surface of your cloud environment.

• Identity & Access Monitoring: Monitor identity and access patterns for signs of compromised or misused credentials.

5. Compliance Monitoring and Reporting

• Pre-Built Compliance Templates: Leverage pre-built compliance frameworks such as PCI-DSS, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and more to quickly assess and ensure compliance across cloud environments.

• Real-Time Compliance Dashboards: Access real-time dashboards to monitor compliance status, track security violations, and view any configuration issues that need attention.

• Automated Reporting: Generate compliance reports to assist with audits and regulatory requirements, reducing manual work for security and compliance teams.

• Audit Trail: Maintain a full audit trail of cloud activities, changes, and configurations to provide visibility for forensic analysis and ensure compliance with regulatory standards.

6. Cloud Vulnerability Management

• Vulnerability Scanning: Continuously scan cloud infrastructure and services for known vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and exposed resources.

• Patch Management: Track patching status and vulnerabilities in cloud-hosted software and services, allowing you to stay on top of security updates and risk mitigation.

• Cloud Asset Discovery: Automatically discover all assets in your cloud environment, providing full visibility into exposed resources that may require attention.

7. Container and Kubernetes Security

• Kubernetes Security Monitoring: Monitor Kubernetes clusters, containers, and orchestrated workloads for potential security issues, including misconfigurations, unauthorized access, and vulnerabilities.

• Container Runtime Monitoring: Track runtime behavior of containers to detect security anomalies such as privilege escalation, unapproved network activity, or container escapes.

• Cloud-Native Security Best Practices: Enforce cloud-native security practices across containerized workloads, such as securing secrets management, implementing least-privilege access controls, and hardening cluster configurations.

8. Unified Security and Operational Insights

• Single Platform for Security and Monitoring: Integrate cloud security with Datadog’s unified observability platform for enhanced visibility into application, infrastructure, and security data.

• Contextual Insights: Combine cloud security insights with performance, logs, and APM data to quickly identify and resolve security issues affecting cloud-based applications and services.

• Customizable Dashboards: Build and customize dashboards to display critical cloud security metrics and alerts, providing real-time visibility into your security posture.

• Real-Time Alerts and Notifications: Set up automated alerts and notifications based on cloud security events, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, or policy violations to proactively manage security risks.

9. Incident Detection and Response

• Security Event Correlation: Correlate security events and incidents across cloud services, applications, and infrastructure to provide a comprehensive view of security risks and vulnerabilities.

• Automated Response and Remediation: Automate remediation actions for common cloud security issues, such as closing open ports or modifying IAM permissions, to reduce response times and minimize manual intervention.

• Incident Tracking: Track and manage incidents, from detection to resolution, with full context and historical data to ensure a thorough investigation and timely remediation.

10. Scalability and Performance

• Scalable Cloud Security: Designed to scale with your growing cloud infrastructure, providing robust security monitoring and management across dynamic environments.

• Global Coverage: Monitor multi-region and multi-cloud environments, ensuring consistent security posture and compliance across all cloud platforms and services.

1. Customizable Dashboards

• Drag-and-Drop Interface: Easily build and customize dashboards using a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface, adding various widgets to display different types of data.

• Custom Widgets: Create widgets for metrics, logs, traces, and other data, allowing for flexible visualization of system health and performance.

• Widget Types: Choose from a wide range of widget types, including time series graphs, heatmaps, tables, query results, top lists, and more to suit different monitoring needs.

• Advanced Visualizations: Use advanced visualizations such as stacked graphs, area charts, and histograms to get a clear understanding of trends and outliers in your data.

2. Real-Time Monitoring

• Live Data: Display real-time data from your cloud infrastructure, applications, and services, ensuring that your team is always working with up-to-date information.

• Automatic Updates: Dashboards automatically refresh at specified intervals, keeping the data presented in the dashboard current without needing manual intervention.

3. Multi-Source Data Integration

• Comprehensive Data Sources: Integrate data from a wide variety of sources, including cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), application performance monitoring (APM), logs, and network devices.

• Unified View: Bring together metrics, logs, and traces on a single dashboard, providing a holistic view of system performance and health.

• Third-Party Integrations: Use pre-built integrations for various technologies and tools, such as databases, message queues, and serverless platforms, to incorporate additional data sources into your dashboards.

4. Interactive Dashboards

• Filters and Interactive Elements: Use filters to drill down into specific time periods, regions, services, or hosts, enabling deep investigation of issues.

• Time Range Selection: Adjust the time range of your dashboards to zoom in on specific time periods, from a few minutes to several months, for better context in monitoring events.

• Interactive Querying: Use Datadog’s querying functionality to interact with your data directly on the dashboard, such as adjusting metrics and viewing custom aggregations.

5. Real-Time Alerts and Notifications

• Alert Widgets: Display alert widgets on your dashboards that show active or recent alerts, enabling your team to quickly see if any critical issues require attention.

• Integrated Notification: Dashboards can integrate with Datadog’s alerting system, enabling users to receive notifications when predefined thresholds are crossed or anomalies are detected.

• On-Demand Alerting: Allow teams to set up real-time alerts directly from the dashboard, streamlining the process of identifying and responding to incidents.

6. Collaboration and Sharing

• Dashboard Sharing: Share dashboards with other team members or stakeholders within your organization to ensure everyone has access to the same real-time data.

• Team Collaboration: Collaborate with other team members by adding comments, creating actionable tasks, or tagging specific users to address issues highlighted on the dashboards.

• Snapshot Links: Create snapshot links to share static views of your dashboards at specific points in time, perfect for reporting or for sharing detailed insights in meetings.

7. Security and Access Control

• Granular Permissions: Control access to dashboards and underlying data with fine-grained role-based access controls (RBAC), ensuring that only authorized users can view or modify sensitive information.

• Secure Sharing: Securely share dashboards with external stakeholders or third-party services while maintaining control over what data is exposed.

• Audit Trails: Track user interactions and changes to dashboards, providing visibility into who accessed or modified a dashboard and when.

8. Custom Alerts and Thresholds

• Custom Thresholds: Set specific thresholds for your metrics and logs to highlight when values deviate from expected patterns or reach critical levels.

• Anomaly Detection Integration: Automatically highlight metrics that deviate from the expected baseline using Datadog’s machine learning-driven anomaly detection, reducing the need to manually configure thresholds.

9. Template Variables

• Dynamic Dashboards: Use template variables to create dynamic dashboards where users can filter and change the views of the data based on variables such as host names, service names, or time periods.

• Cross-Dashboard Linking: Link multiple dashboards together with shared template variables, allowing users to navigate seamlessly between different views of the same dataset.

10. Integrations with Other Datadog Products

• APM Integration: Incorporate APM traces and insights directly into your dashboards for comprehensive application performance monitoring alongside infrastructure metrics.

• Log Management Integration: Add log data directly to dashboards, providing a unified view of logs and metrics to help identify and troubleshoot issues faster.

• Security Monitoring: Bring security insights from Datadog’s Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and threat detection tools directly into your dashboards to track the security health of your cloud environments.

11. Mobile and Cross-Device Access

• Mobile App Access: View and interact with dashboards on Datadog’s mobile app, enabling teams to stay informed and act on critical data while on the go.

• Cross-Device Support: Access dashboards from any device, including desktops, laptops, and mobile devices, ensuring that your team can monitor data wherever they are.

12. Custom Layouts

• Custom Layouts for Dashboards: Tailor the layout of your dashboard to match the needs of your team, whether it’s a broad overview of infrastructure or a deep dive into specific application performance metrics.

• Layout Flexibility: Resize and organize widgets to create a dashboard that fits your monitoring needs, whether you need a dense, information-rich view or a simpler, more focused layout.

13. Historical Data and Trends

• Historical Views: View historical data trends over days, weeks, or months to identify long-term patterns, performance degradation, or recurring incidents.

• Comparison Widgets: Compare current data against historical baselines to see whether performance has improved or deteriorated over time.

1. Cloud-Native Vulnerability Scanning

• Scalable Cloud Coverage: Tenable provides continuous, automated vulnerability scanning for cloud environments, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Integration with Cloud APIs: Integrates directly with cloud APIs to scan cloud-hosted resources like virtual machines, containers, and serverless services without requiring additional infrastructure.

• Cloud Asset Discovery: Automatically discovers and inventories assets across the cloud, ensuring that all resources are monitored and assessed for vulnerabilities.

• Real-Time Vulnerability Detection: Detects and highlights vulnerabilities in real-time, keeping your cloud environment secure as it evolves.

2. Comprehensive Vulnerability Assessment

• Multi-Cloud Support: Monitors and manages vulnerabilities across different cloud providers, providing a unified view of your cloud security posture.

• Unified Vulnerability Management: Consolidates vulnerability data from on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments into a single platform, providing a comprehensive vulnerability assessment.

• CVE Coverage: Offers extensive coverage of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) to identify and prioritize known security weaknesses in your infrastructure.

• Container Security: Scans containerized environments for known vulnerabilities in container images and runtime configurations.

3. Continuous Monitoring and Reporting

• Real-Time Monitoring: Provides continuous monitoring of cloud resources, ensuring that new vulnerabilities are detected as soon as they emerge.

• Customizable Dashboards: Create custom dashboards to track and visualize vulnerability data across different environments, providing a real-time snapshot of your security posture.

• Compliance Reporting: Generate automated compliance reports to meet regulatory requirements such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, NIST, GDPR, and others.

• Vulnerability Trend Analysis: Track vulnerability trends over time to identify patterns, assess remediation efforts, and report progress to stakeholders.

4. Risk-Based Prioritization

• Risk Scoring: Assign risk scores to vulnerabilities based on the severity of their potential impact, the exploitability of the issue, and the context of your environment.

• Prioritized Remediation: Focus remediation efforts on the most critical vulnerabilities, ensuring that your team addresses the highest-risk issues first.

• Context-Aware Prioritization: Take into account factors such as asset importance, business impact, and exploitability to determine the priority of vulnerabilities.

• Exploited Vulnerabilities Detection: Identify vulnerabilities that are actively being exploited or have known exploits available, allowing teams to quickly respond to active threats.

5. Automated Remediation Workflows

• Integration with Remediation Tools: Integrates with issue tracking and patch management tools to streamline the remediation process and ensure vulnerabilities are addressed in a timely manner.

• Automated Patch Management: Helps automate patching of vulnerabilities across cloud-hosted systems and resources, reducing the risk of attacks due to unpatched vulnerabilities.

• Self-Healing Capabilities: Integrates with security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) tools to trigger automatic remediation actions based on pre-set rules and workflows.

6. Advanced Analytics and Reporting

• Root Cause Analysis: Perform deep-dive analysis into the root causes of vulnerabilities, enabling you to better understand the underlying issues and prevent recurrence.

• Vulnerability Trends and Forecasting: Leverage machine learning and AI-based algorithms to predict future vulnerability trends and identify areas that require proactive attention.

• Advanced Reporting: Generate customized reports for various stakeholders, from IT teams to executives, with actionable insights, metrics, and recommendations.

• Historical Data Access: Access historical vulnerability data to track remediation efforts, review past incidents, and provide evidence for audits.

7. Cloud-Native Integration

• Integration with CI/CD Pipelines: Tenable integrates with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to scan code and containers for vulnerabilities early in the development process.

• Cloud Platform-Specific Tools: Leverage cloud-native tools and capabilities, such as AWS Config, Azure Security Center, and Google Cloud Security Command Center, to seamlessly scan and monitor cloud assets.

8. Vulnerability Intelligence

• Threat Intelligence Feeds: Receive up-to-date threat intelligence feeds to stay informed about newly discovered vulnerabilities and actively exploited threats.

• Zero-Day Vulnerability Detection: Detect zero-day vulnerabilities and emerging threats based on real-time intelligence feeds and exploitability data.

• Vulnerability Exploitability: Evaluate the exploitability of detected vulnerabilities, helping prioritize based on risk.

9. Compliance and Governance

• Policy Enforcement: Ensure your cloud environment complies with security policies by automatically identifying and alerting on violations.

• Regulatory Compliance Monitoring: Continuously monitor your cloud environment for compliance with industry standards such as NIST, PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, and SOC 2.

• Audit Trails: Maintain a comprehensive audit trail of vulnerability scans, remediation actions, and compliance checks for regulatory reporting and forensic purposes.

10. Collaboration and Workflow Integration

• Team Collaboration: Allow security, operations, and development teams to collaborate on identifying, prioritizing, and remediating vulnerabilities.

• Alerting and Notifications: Set up alerts and notifications to inform relevant teams when vulnerabilities are detected, ensuring timely response and action.

• Task Management: Integrate with task management platforms like Jira to create actionable tickets for remediation, helping teams track and manage vulnerabilities to resolution.

11. Scalability and Flexibility

• Multi-Tenant Support: Tenable’s cloud-based platform supports multi-tenancy, enabling large organizations and managed service providers (MSPs) to manage vulnerabilities across multiple accounts or customers.

• High Scalability: Tenable scales effortlessly with your cloud infrastructure, handling large volumes of data, assets, and vulnerabilities without compromising performance.

• Flexible Deployment: Deploy Tenable in various cloud environments, from hybrid to fully cloud-native infrastructures, adapting to your specific needs.

1. Cloud-Native Security Monitoring

• Continuous Cloud Visibility: Provides real-time, continuous monitoring of cloud infrastructure, ensuring that security risks are detected as soon as they emerge.

• Support for Multi-Cloud Environments: Supports cloud environments such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and hybrid clouds, providing a unified security posture across all platforms.

• Automated Cloud Asset Discovery: Automatically discovers and inventories all cloud resources, including instances, databases, containers, and serverless services, to ensure they are continuously monitored for security risks.

2. Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

• Configuration Auditing: Identifies misconfigurations in cloud infrastructure that can lead to vulnerabilities, such as open ports, unsecured access keys, and improper access controls.

• Security Best Practices Compliance: Continuously checks cloud environments against best practices frameworks (e.g., CIS, NIST, AWS Well-Architected) and regulatory standards (e.g., PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR).

• Real-Time Alerts: Delivers real-time alerts for misconfigurations, policy violations, and potential vulnerabilities that could affect the cloud environment’s security.

• Remediation Guidance: Provides actionable remediation steps to address misconfigurations and compliance issues, helping security teams act swiftly to secure their cloud environments.

3. Cloud Vulnerability Management

• Vulnerability Detection Across Cloud Services: Detects vulnerabilities in cloud-based assets, including virtual machines, storage services, network configurations, and cloud-based applications.

• Integration with Vulnerability Intelligence Feeds: Utilizes threat intelligence feeds to keep cloud environments protected from known vulnerabilities and zero-day exploits.

• Vulnerability Prioritization: Automatically prioritizes vulnerabilities based on their risk level, impact, and exploitability, helping security teams focus on the most critical issues.

• Comprehensive Asset Scanning: Scans both cloud and hybrid environments for vulnerabilities, enabling thorough risk assessments of all cloud-hosted resources.

4. Container and Kubernetes Security

• Container Image Scanning: Scans container images for known vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and insecure dependencies before deployment, ensuring secure containers in the development pipeline.

• Kubernetes Security Monitoring: Provides real-time monitoring of Kubernetes clusters and their components to detect security issues, including improper configurations and unauthorized access.

• Runtime Security: Monitors the security of running containers and Kubernetes workloads to identify abnormal behavior or potential threats during execution.

5. Identity and Access Management (IAM) Security

• Access Control Monitoring: Analyzes identity and access configurations to ensure that only authorized users and services have access to cloud resources.

• IAM Misconfiguration Detection: Detects misconfigurations, such as excessive permissions, unused roles, or insecure access policies, that can lead to privilege escalation or unauthorized access.

• Compliance Auditing: Audits and ensures IAM practices adhere to security frameworks and policies to minimize the risk of insider threats and credential misuse.

6. Cloud Security Automation

• Automated Remediation: Automates remediation of cloud misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, reducing the manual effort required for addressing issues and accelerating time-to-resolution.

• Integration with DevOps Pipelines: Integrates with CI/CD pipelines to ensure that security checks are performed early in the development lifecycle, preventing insecure code and configurations from reaching production.

• Security as Code: Embeds security into the DevOps process through policy-as-code and automated controls, enabling proactive security management across cloud environments.

7. Compliance and Reporting

• Automated Compliance Checks: Continuously monitors cloud environments to ensure compliance with industry standards, including PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, and others, to reduce the risk of non-compliance penalties.

• Customizable Reports: Provides customizable compliance reports that meet regulatory and internal auditing requirements, helping organizations demonstrate their adherence to security policies and industry standards.

• Audit Trails: Maintains detailed audit logs of actions taken within the cloud environment, allowing for traceability in case of security incidents or audits.

8. Threat Detection and Incident Response

• Anomaly Detection: Leverages machine learning to detect anomalies in cloud environments, identifying suspicious activities such as unauthorized access attempts, lateral movement, or data exfiltration.

• Cloud-Specific Threat Intelligence: Integrates with threat intelligence sources to stay updated on emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and attack vectors specific to cloud environments.

• Incident Investigation Tools: Provides tools to help security teams investigate and analyze security incidents, enabling fast detection and response to potential threats.

9. Cloud Network Security

• Network Configuration Auditing: Analyzes network configurations in the cloud, such as security groups, firewalls, and VPC settings, to ensure they are properly secured and follow best practices.

• Network Traffic Monitoring: Monitors network traffic in real time to detect suspicious patterns or unauthorized access attempts, helping prevent data breaches and intrusions.

• Micro-Segmentation: Assists in segmenting cloud networks into smaller, isolated zones, reducing the impact of any security incidents and minimizing the attack surface.

10. Collaboration and Visibility for Teams

• Cross-Department Collaboration: Enables collaboration between security, operations, and DevOps teams to ensure security policies and configurations are aligned across the organization.

• Centralized Dashboards: Provides a unified view of security across all cloud environments, allowing teams to monitor and act on security data from a central location.

• Custom Alerts and Notifications: Configure tailored alerts and notifications for different user roles or departments, ensuring that the right people are notified of specific security issues or risks.

11. Scalability and Flexibility

• Cloud Scale Security: Tenable Cloud Security is designed to scale with your growing cloud infrastructure, handling large numbers of assets and security checks without impacting performance.

• Support for Hybrid Environments: In addition to cloud-native environments, Tenable also provides support for hybrid environments, where on-premises infrastructure is integrated with public cloud services.

1. Container Image Scanning

• Pre-Deployment Scanning: Scans container images for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations before they are deployed into production environments.

• Comprehensive Vulnerability Detection: Detects known vulnerabilities (CVEs) in container images, including base images and application dependencies, using a continuously updated vulnerability database.

• Deep Image Analysis: Analyzes the full stack of container images, including the operating system, libraries, dependencies, and runtime configurations.

• Policy-Based Scanning: Allows teams to define security policies that enforce specific vulnerability thresholds, helping to control which images are allowed into production.

2. Real-Time Container Runtime Security

• Runtime Protection: Provides real-time monitoring of running containers to detect suspicious behavior or unauthorized access, including privilege escalation, code injection, and unauthorized system calls.

• Container Behavior Monitoring: Tracks the behavior of containers during runtime, helping identify anomalies that may indicate security issues or vulnerabilities.

• Threat Detection: Detects potential threats such as malicious activity, unauthorized changes, or data exfiltration within containers in real-time.

• Isolation and Micro-Segmentation: Helps enforce runtime isolation of containers and micro-segment network traffic to minimize the impact of security breaches.

3. Integration with CI/CD Pipelines

• DevSecOps Integration: Integrates seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines to enable security scanning early in the development process, ensuring that insecure images are caught before deployment.

• Automated Security Gates: Automatically enforces security checks and approval gates based on predefined security policies, preventing vulnerable images from entering production environments.

• Continuous Scanning: Continuously scans containers at every stage of the development lifecycle, from development to testing to production.

4. Vulnerability Management and Prioritization

• Vulnerability Scoring: Uses a risk-based approach to prioritize vulnerabilities based on severity, exploitability, and the potential impact on the containerized application and overall infrastructure.

• Automatic Risk-Based Prioritization: Helps security teams focus remediation efforts on the most critical vulnerabilities by automatically prioritizing risks based on context.

• Fix Recommendations: Provides actionable recommendations for fixing identified vulnerabilities, including patching images, upgrading dependencies, or changing configurations.

• Context-Aware Vulnerability Assessment: Leverages context (e.g., network exposure, container configuration) to provide prioritized remediation steps based on business impact.

5. Container Orchestration and Kubernetes Security

• Kubernetes Integration: Provides security monitoring for Kubernetes clusters, ensuring that security issues in the container orchestration environment are detected and remediated.

• Pod and Node Security: Monitors security risks within Kubernetes pods, nodes, and containers, detecting potential vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

• Kubernetes Policy Enforcement: Enforces security policies within the Kubernetes environment, helping secure clusters and reduce the attack surface of containerized applications.

• Runtime Protection for Kubernetes: Offers runtime security to protect Kubernetes clusters from malicious activity and unauthorized container behavior.

6. Compliance Monitoring

• Compliance Frameworks: Supports common compliance frameworks such as CIS Kubernetes Benchmark, NIST, PCI-DSS, and others, helping ensure that container environments meet regulatory standards.

• Audit Logs and Reporting: Generates detailed audit logs and reports to track container security posture and prove compliance during audits.

• Continuous Compliance Monitoring: Continuously monitors containers and Kubernetes clusters to ensure that security controls are enforced and compliance is maintained over time.

7. Container Security Posture Management

• Misconfiguration Detection: Identifies and alerts on misconfigurations within containers and Kubernetes environments, such as overly permissive security settings, weak access controls, and insecure image registries.

• Security Best Practices Enforcement: Enforces security best practices and policies for container configurations to minimize the attack surface.

• Automated Remediation: Provides automated remediation options for container misconfigurations, making it easier to address issues as they arise without manual intervention.

8. Visibility and Reporting

• Unified Dashboard: Offers a centralized dashboard to monitor the security status of all containers and container images, providing insights into vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and security posture.

• Customizable Reports: Generates detailed, customizable reports that can be used by security teams, DevOps, and compliance officers to track security risks, compliance status, and remediation progress.

• Alerting and Notifications: Sends real-time alerts for critical vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and runtime anomalies, helping security teams respond quickly to emerging threats.

9. Advanced Threat Detection and Response

• Anomaly Detection: Leverages machine learning and behavioral analysis to detect anomalies in container behavior and interactions that may indicate a security threat or breach.

• Incident Response Support: Provides detailed forensic information to support incident investigation and response, helping teams quickly contain and mitigate potential breaches.

• Integration with SIEMs and SOARs: Integrates with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) tools to provide seamless threat detection and automated response workflows.

10. Scalability and Flexibility

• Cloud-Native Scalability: Tenable Container Security is designed to scale with modern cloud-native environments, offering seamless protection for large-scale container deployments and Kubernetes clusters.

• Multi-Cluster Support: Provides visibility and security monitoring across multiple container clusters and cloud environments, enabling security at scale for enterprises.

• Hybrid Cloud Support: Works across both on-premises and cloud-based containerized applications, providing visibility and security across hybrid environments.

1. Backup and Recovery

• Automated Backup: Schedules and automates the backup of AWS EC2 instances, EBS volumes, and other AWS resources to ensure data is consistently protected.

• Granular Recovery: Enables recovery of entire instances, specific files, or application-level data, allowing for flexible and granular restores.

• Flexible Restore Options: Supports restoring backups to the same AWS region, across regions, or to on-premises environments, ensuring disaster recovery flexibility.

2. Incremental Backups

• Incremental-forever Backup: Performs incremental backups after an initial full backup, reducing storage costs and backup window size by capturing only changes since the last backup.

• Efficient Data Handling: Reduces data storage and network usage by backing up only the incremental changes to data rather than duplicating the entire backup set.

3. Cost-Effective Storage Optimization

• Backup Storage in S3: Stores backups in Amazon S3, utilizing cloud storage for scalability and cost efficiency.

• Deduplication and Compression: Optimizes storage costs by deduplicating data and compressing backups, reducing the amount of space needed for backup storage.

• Flexible Storage Tiers: Offers integration with AWS S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive for long-term archival, providing low-cost storage options for infrequent access data.

4. Multi-Region and Multi-Account Support

• Cross-Region Backups: Allows backup data to be stored across multiple AWS regions for disaster recovery and redundancy purposes.

• Multi-Account Backup: Supports backing up AWS resources from multiple AWS accounts, providing a centralized solution for multi-account AWS environments.

5. Application-Aware Backups

• Backup for Critical Applications: Supports application-aware backups for AWS-hosted applications, such as databases (e.g., SQL Server), ensuring application consistency and proper recovery.

• Amazon RDS and Aurora Support: Provides backup capabilities for Amazon RDS and Aurora databases, ensuring that database instances are protected and can be restored to any point in time.

6. Automated Backup Policies

• Backup Schedules: Offers customizable backup schedules to automate the backup process according to business requirements, ensuring continuous protection.

• Retention Policies: Allows for setting backup retention policies to manage how long backups are stored, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements while optimizing storage costs.

7. Backup Monitoring and Alerts

• Monitoring Dashboard: Provides a centralized monitoring dashboard that displays the status of backup jobs, storage usage, and potential issues, ensuring that data protection is always on track.

• Notifications and Alerts: Sends notifications via email or API when a backup job fails or encounters issues, allowing administrators to quickly address problems.

8. Security and Encryption

• Encryption at Rest and in Transit: Ensures data is encrypted both at rest (while stored in AWS S3) and in transit (during backup and recovery operations) to protect sensitive data.

• IAM Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Leverages AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to control access to backup operations, ensuring that only authorized users can manage backups and recovery operations.

9. Easy-to-Use Interface

• Simple User Interface: Offers a user-friendly interface for backup configuration, monitoring, and management, reducing the complexity of data protection for AWS environments.

• Backup Job Templates: Provides pre-configured templates for common backup scenarios, helping users quickly get started with backup and recovery operations.

10. Hybrid Cloud Integration

• Backup On-Premises and AWS Hybrid Environments: Allows businesses with both on-premises and AWS workloads to back up across hybrid environments, creating a unified backup strategy that spans both on-premises and cloud resources.

• AWS Integration: Seamlessly integrates with AWS services like EC2, S3, EBS, and RDS for a fully native AWS backup solution.

11. Disaster Recovery

• Instant Recovery: Offers features for fast recovery of critical AWS instances with minimal downtime. This includes instant VM recovery for EC2 instances.

• Cross-Region Disaster Recovery: Enables recovery of data to a different AWS region in case of an AWS region outage, ensuring business continuity and reducing the risk of data loss.

12. Backup for EC2 Instances and EBS Volumes

• EC2 Instance Backup: Enables full backups of Amazon EC2 instances, capturing the entire instance configuration, including attached EBS volumes.

• EBS Volume Snapshot Backup: Creates and stores backups of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, protecting data on persistent block storage.

• Volume-Level Recovery: Provides the ability to recover individual EBS volumes or entire EC2 instances from backups.

13. Disaster Recovery Automation

• Automated Failover: Allows for automated failover to backup resources in case of a disaster, reducing downtime and enabling business continuity.

• Failover Testing: Supports automated failover testing to ensure that disaster recovery plans work as expected without disrupting production environments.

1. Azure VM Backup and Recovery

• Full VM Backup: Provides full backup of Azure VMs, including system disks and data disks, ensuring that all critical data is protected.

• Granular Recovery: Allows for recovery of individual files, folders, or entire VMs from Azure backups, offering flexibility in restoring data.

• Instant VM Recovery: Enables the instant recovery of VMs directly from backups, reducing downtime and improving recovery times.

• Cross-Region Recovery: Supports recovery of VMs to a different Azure region, ensuring disaster recovery and business continuity.

2. Incremental Backups

• Incremental-forever Backup: After the initial full backup, only incremental changes are captured in subsequent backups, optimizing both backup time and storage costs.

• Efficient Backup Processing: Reduces network bandwidth usage by transferring only the changed data, speeding up the backup process and lowering storage costs.

3. Cost-Effective Storage Management

• Azure Blob Storage: Backups are stored in Azure Blob Storage, with integration into hot, cool, or archive tiers, depending on access needs and cost optimization.

• Deduplication and Compression: Reduces storage consumption by deduplicating and compressing backup data, helping to optimize storage space and minimize backup costs.

• Backup to Azure Files: Offers the ability to back up to Azure Files for file-level backup and recovery of files and folders.

4. Automated Backup Policies

• Backup Scheduling: Automates backup scheduling to ensure consistent and timely protection of Azure VMs and other resources without manual intervention.

• Retention Policies: Customize retention settings to control how long backups are stored, enabling compliance with data retention regulations and optimizing storage usage.

5. Application-Aware Backups

• Application Consistency: Supports application-aware backups for critical applications such as databases (SQL Server), ensuring data consistency and reliable recovery of mission-critical applications.

• File-Level Backup for Azure Files: Provides granular backup for Azure Files, ensuring that important file data is protected and recoverable.

• Backup for Azure SQL: Includes support for backing up Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instances, ensuring that database data is protected.

6. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

• Disaster Recovery: Provides a disaster recovery solution for Azure workloads, enabling businesses to quickly recover their VMs and data in the event of a failure.

• Geo-Redundancy: Supports backup and recovery across Azure regions to ensure that backup data is protected and available even during a regional outage.

• Failover to Azure: Allows failover to Azure VMs in case of on-premises failure, ensuring business continuity.

7. Security and Encryption

• Encryption at Rest and in Transit: Data is encrypted both at rest in Azure storage and during transit to ensure that backup data is secure.

• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Integrates with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to provide role-based access control, ensuring only authorized users can perform backup and recovery tasks.

• Multi-Tenant Support: Supports multi-tenant environments, allowing for secure and isolated backup management across different organizational units.

8. Centralized Management

• Veeam Backup Console: Provides a centralized console to manage backup jobs, monitor backup status, and configure backup and recovery policies for Azure workloads.

• Cloud Backup and Restore Monitoring: Enables monitoring of backup jobs, providing real-time visibility into backup status, job success/failure, and any potential issues.

• Reporting and Analytics: Offers detailed reports and analytics for backup operations, helping organizations track their backup status, storage utilization, and compliance.

9. Integration with Hybrid Environments

• Hybrid Cloud Support: Veeam Backup for Azure is designed to work seamlessly in hybrid cloud environments, providing backup protection for both on-premises and Azure workloads.

• Backup for Azure Stack: Extends backup protection to Azure Stack, offering backup solutions for workloads running in private Azure environments.

10. Compliance and Data Retention

• Data Retention Policies: Customizable retention policies ensure that backup data is kept for the required period to meet compliance and regulatory requirements.

• Audit Logs: Provides detailed audit logs for backup operations, offering transparency and traceability for compliance audits and regulatory reviews.

1. Backup and Recovery for Google Cloud VMs

• Full VM Backup: Provides backup for Google Compute Engine (GCE) VMs, including system disks and data disks, ensuring that all critical data is protected.

• Granular Recovery: Offers granular recovery for individual files, folders, or entire VMs from backup, providing flexibility in restoring specific resources.

• Instant VM Recovery: Allows for the instant recovery of Google Cloud VMs directly from backup, minimizing downtime and restoring business operations quickly.

• Cross-Region Recovery: Supports recovery of VMs to different Google Cloud regions for disaster recovery scenarios, ensuring continued operations during regional outages.

2. Incremental Backups

• Incremental-forever Backup: After an initial full backup, only incremental changes are captured in subsequent backups, reducing backup time and optimizing storage costs.

• Efficient Backup Operations: Reduces the load on network bandwidth and storage resources by backing up only the changed data, improving backup performance.

3. Cost-Effective Storage Management

• Google Cloud Storage Integration: Utilizes Google Cloud Storage to store backups, with integration into different storage classes (Standard, Nearline, Coldline, Archive) to meet varying access needs and optimize costs.

• Deduplication and Compression: Reduces the amount of storage required for backups by deduplicating and compressing the backup data, making storage more efficient and cost-effective.

• Backup Retention Policies: Customizable backup retention policies allow businesses to manage how long backup data is stored, optimizing storage costs and meeting compliance needs.

4. Automated Backup Policies

• Backup Scheduling: Automates backup tasks with flexible scheduling options, ensuring that Google Cloud resources are protected without manual intervention.

• Retention Management: Enables retention policies for backup data to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and business needs.

5. Application-Aware Backups

• Application Consistency: Veeam ensures that backups are application-consistent for workloads like databases, ensuring data integrity and reliable recovery for applications running on Google Cloud.

• Backup for Google Cloud SQL: Provides backup capabilities for Google Cloud SQL, ensuring that database instances are backed up and recoverable.

6. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

• Disaster Recovery to Google Cloud: Supports recovery of data from a disaster, providing business continuity and ensuring that workloads running in Google Cloud can quickly recover from failure scenarios.

• Cross-Region and Cross-Project Recovery: Facilitates disaster recovery by allowing users to recover resources to different regions or even different projects within Google Cloud.

• Failover to Google Cloud: Enables failover to Google Cloud in case of a failure in other cloud environments or on-premises infrastructure, ensuring seamless business continuity.

7. Security and Encryption

• Encryption at Rest and in Transit: Ensures data protection by encrypting backup data both at rest (in Google Cloud Storage) and in transit, providing a secure backup solution.

• Access Control with Google IAM: Uses Google Cloud’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) to define access policies, ensuring that only authorized users can perform backup and restore operations.

• Backup Access and Role-Based Permissions: Integrates with IAM for granular access control, allowing specific roles to manage backup tasks based on organizational policies.

8. Centralized Management and Monitoring

• Veeam Backup Console: Provides a centralized interface to manage backup jobs, monitor backup status, and configure backup operations for Google Cloud workloads.

• Real-Time Monitoring: Real-time monitoring of backup operations with dashboards to track job status, success/failure, and any errors that may occur.

• Reporting and Analytics: Includes detailed reporting and analytics to give insight into backup operations, storage utilization, and job success/failure.

9. Backup for Google Cloud Storage

• Backup for Google Cloud Buckets: Enables backup of Google Cloud Storage buckets, protecting large amounts of unstructured data like logs, backups, and media files.

• Granular File Recovery: Provides granular file-level recovery from Google Cloud Storage backups, allowing organizations to restore specific files or objects within a bucket.

10. Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Support

• Hybrid Cloud Protection: Veeam Backup for Google Cloud works within hybrid cloud environments, allowing you to protect both Google Cloud and other cloud or on-premises workloads with a single solution.

• Multi-Cloud Integration: Seamlessly integrates with other cloud environments like AWS and Microsoft Azure, offering cross-cloud backup solutions.

11. Compliance and Data Retention

• Data Retention Management: Customizable retention policies allow users to define how long backups should be stored and automatically delete backups that are no longer required, ensuring compliance with internal and regulatory data retention standards.

• Audit Logs: Detailed audit logs capture backup operations, providing transparency and supporting compliance with industry regulations.