We adopted Cloud Native Security for its offensive security engine, which no other tools provide. It checks to see if any file or domain has public access. We also use it for cloud configuration scanning. Now, we are integrating it with cloud detection and response and plan to integrate it with CloudTrail and logs. Multiple team members use the solution. Our cloud security team has more than 10 members. We sometimes forward issues to the application team.
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The offensive security feature is something no other product offers
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
When creating cloud infrastructure, Cloud Native Security evaluates the cloud security parameters and how they will impact the organization's risk. It lets us know whether our security parameter conforms to international industry standards. It alerts us about anything that increases our risk, so we can address those vulnerabilities and prevent attacks.
Compliance management is critical for every organization. Our compliance score was pretty low when we started using Cloud Native Security. Now, we've started seeing improvement every quarter. We're around 85 to 95 percent compliant. When we see any alerts related to configuration, we raise a ticket with our follow-up team unless the issue is resolved automatically. We eliminate false positives and identify and work on any problems with our policies or other issues.
Cloud Native Security has reduced our detection time by 15 to 20 percent through automation. The solution makes it easier by showing every impacted resource on a single dashboard. If we didn't have an automated tool to show us all the affected assets, we wouldn't know what's happening on every server or the resources we have created. Without this solution, we had to go to the documentation page for every cloud provider and implement the change. Now, we can check a single dashboard to get an overall idea of how something impacts our resources, and it helps us to automate.
The solution has improved collaboration between our teams regarding security posture. We can say to the cloud security team that they need to follow a particular posture-related practice or adopt a network configuration, like blocking public access to a resource. We give these requirements to the network development and application teams.
Cloud Native Security has reduced our vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, improving our security posture. We had about 10,000 alerts when we started, but we brought that down to around 500. That was a considerable improvement in six months.
What is most valuable?
I have worked on most of the tools in the market, and every product has distinctive features. Cloud Native Security's standout feature is offensive security. That's something no other product offers. All the other products have the same core features, such as vulnerability scanning.
The UI is user-friendly, and the recommendations are easy for everyone to understand. If any misconfiguration happens, all four teams can read the options and understand how to implement them. To achieve these goals, we can also create an automated template according to cloud security best practices
SecOps plays a crucial role in our deployment and testing in the software lifecycle. In the course of building and deploying our applications, we need to look at our vulnerabilities and configurations. It's easy to identify these things and fix them before deployment by integrating Cloud Native Security.
The solution's evidence-based reporting is helpful because it provides real-time information. If a file has been opened and we haven't provided access, it gives us the evidence. It tells us the domain, and we try to investigate by going to the team that owns the file. We require them to make the file private, so it can't be accessed from the internet.
What needs improvement?
Cloud Native Security's reporting could be better. We are unable to see which images are impacted. Several thousand images have been deployed, so if we can see some application-specific information in the dashboard, we can directly send that report to the team that owns the application. We'd also like the option to download the report from the portal instead of waiting for the report to be sent to our email.
For how long have I used the solution?
We started using Cloud Native Security last year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Cloud Native Security doesn't have any bugs or glitches. It's fairly stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate Cloud Native Security nine out of ten for scalability.
How are customer service and support?
I rate Cloud Native Security support nine out of ten. They have email support, but there is no option to raise tickets from within the portal. Now, they have Intercom, and we raise tickets through that.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We previously used Prisma Cloud, which has many of the same features, such as cloud-based configuration, Kubernetes scanning, vulnerability assessment, etc., but Cloud Native Security has the Offensive Security Engine. That is the main reason we switched.
How was the initial setup?
Our organization started with a POC for a month and a half before presenting Cloud Native Security to our VP and senior leadership. They gave us the go-ahead, and we finalized the product. It took us less than a week to implement, but the deployment time depends on the organization. It might take time if they need to get approval from leaders.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I rate Cloud Native Security seven out of ten for pricing. It's cheaper than many other products.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Cloud Native Security nine out of ten. It's a mature solution that includes all the features found in other products on the market.
Helps improve our cloud security monitoring processes, streamline compliance management, and reduce detection time
What is our primary use case?
Our Cloud Native Security use cases depend on the type of SQL server we use. Currently, we need to check all cloud-based configurations directly. Cloud Native Security helps us identify SQL configurations on our local PCs.
How has it helped my organization?
Cloud Native Security has improved our cloud security monitoring processes. We can now capture all issues and misconfigurations in real-time, allowing us to respond quickly.
It streamlined compliance management for our organization. They schedule a meeting with us every month to discuss any requirements on our end, such as updating the Cloud Native Security version. For example, one time they informed us that we needed to update to Cloud Native Security version four. We inquired with their customer support team, who were very approachable and requested them to implement the cloud version of Cloud Native Security version four into our Cloud Native Security dashboard. They implemented it within five to six days. We were happy to adopt the enhanced security controls of Cloud Native Security version four. The customer success team and the customer-facing teams were very helpful and provided us with the best solution. This is why we chose Cloud Native Security. They are a well-established CSPM company in India with a proven track record of assisting businesses with compliance requirements. By onboarding Cloud Native Security, we gained a cloud-based configuration management system for our workloads.
It's easy to use.
Our cloud security issues are already automated using a common subscription ticketing tool to capture them. Reports are then sent to both the internal DevOps team to identify potential false positives and the business team to assess if resolving the issue aligns with business requirements.
Cloud Native Security's event-based evidence reporting should include proof of exploitability. This would allow users to easily identify misconfigured areas in the graph and click on a provided link to conveniently be redirected to the cloud service provider management console page for more details.
Cloud Native Security's offensive security engine proved valuable recently. When an endpoint was mistakenly exposed, it automatically captured the unauthorized request in the cloud and sent an alert to our email address. This notification allowed us to take swift action and restrict access to the URL on our network.
The AI helps us handle the hundreds of audits each year helping to enhance our security posture.
Cloud Native Security's access to the IIM role in the cloud formation template significantly reduces false positives, thereby maximizing the number of true positives.
Cloud Native Security helps us improve our risk posture, failover capabilities, and compliance levels.
Cloud Native Security reduces our MTTD. We are alerted within seconds on the dashboard and email of the detection.
To assess our MTTR, we need to consult with the DevOps team and conduct an impact analysis. If the impact analysis reveals no disruption to the production application within the AWS network architecture, we can proceed with remediation immediately. However, if the analysis identifies a potential impact, obtaining management approval will add to the resolution timeframe.
Cloud Native Security improves collaboration between our cloud security application developers and AppSec teams. It's particularly helpful for AppSec because we can leverage cloud security controls directly from Cloud Native Security. This also allows us to mitigate cloud misconfigurations.
What is most valuable?
Cloud Native Security's most valuable features include cloud misconfiguration detection and remediation, compliance monitoring, a robust authentication security engine, and cloud threat detection and response capabilities.
What needs improvement?
In addition to our telecom and Slack channels, it would be helpful to receive Cloud Native Security security notifications in Microsoft Teams.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Cloud Native Security for six months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Cloud Native Security is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of Cloud Native Security is good.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support is the best. They can integrate our suggestions for security control into Cloud Native Security within three days.
How was the initial setup?
The deployment took one week. The deployment was completed by one person from our team along with a tech team from Cloud Native Security.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Cloud Native Security is priced reasonably for our workload.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate Cloud Native Security ten out of ten.
We have a large number of users of Cloud Native Security in our organization.
I recommend Cloud Native Security to others.
It provides valuable insights into security best practices tailored for businesses leveraging cloud infrastructure to host their applications.
What is our primary use case?
Our company relies on Cloud Native Security to fortify the security of our cloud accounts spanning various environments, such as AWS, AZURE and Google Cloud. Cloud Native Security provides timely alerts upon identifying vulnerabilities within our cloud infrastructure services, such as security groups and data encryption, empowering us to prioritize and address them promptly.
How has it helped my organization?
Cloud Native Security helps us discover vulnerabilities in a cloud environment like open ports that allow people to attack our environment. If someone unintentionally opens a port, we are exposed. Cloud Native Security alerts us so we can remediate the problem. We can also automate it so that Cloud Native Security will fix it.
Since implementing Cloud Native Security, our security team has engaged in robust discussions on enhancing compliance with key regulatory standards such as SOC, ISO, and other pertinent IT infrastructure-related guidelines. As a result of these proactive measures, our security posture has seen a remarkable improvement, reflecting our commitment to maintaining a secure and compliant environment.
Cloud Native Security plays a major role in compliance. IT companies must maintain our company's security level to achieve ISO-based certifications. We are so proud of the changes we have made using Cloud Native Security. We've implemented many of the controls Cloud Native Security recommended, helping us maintain a high security standard. Fintech companies must maintain security best practices overall in our infrastructure.
Cloud Native Security offers suggestions about best practices for security, and we've implemented them all. It's helpful for companies hosting their applications in the cloud configuration. This tool enables us to record unauthorized actors or security failures. Everything is reported in Cloud Native Security, allowing us to rectify mistakes and misconfigurations.
When security threats occur, Cloud Native Security immediately alerts us through various communication channels. It has several modules, including cloud misconfigurations, container security, Kubernetes, vulnerability management, infrastructure code scanning, and cloud detection and response. It also tells us when unauthorized API calls are occurring. Everything is recorded in Cloud Native Security, and it alerts us about what is happening in the account. The detection time for critical alerts is almost instant. We'll see it in under two minutes.
The solution saves the company a lot of time. Responding to alerts can take up a lot of our team's bandwidth. But there is a feature of their remediate that helps the bandwidth of our engineering team to fix the issues when we used Cloud Native Security as a team member. They helped us fix the issues and saved a lot of bandwidth for our team.
What is most valuable?
My top preferences revolve around infrastructure-as-code scanning and Kubernetes security. With infrastructure-as-code scanning, we catch errors or inadvertent inclusion of sensitive data in our code prior to deploying infrastructure via Terraform. As we continue to leverage Terraform for infrastructure deployment, alongside embracing new technologies to stay aligned with industry advancements, these features play a pivotal role in maintaining our security standards and workflow efficiency.
Cloud Native Security helps us detect vulnerabilities when deploying infrastructure. We use Cloud Native Security to monitor all our cloud infrastructure and accounts. It continuously scans whether or not we have the agent installed. It's something like a role. You can configure an IAM role that provides access to Cloud Native Security to scan. It enables seamless connectivity with any cloud environment.
The Offensive Security Engine has helped us to discover some breaches.
You can see across the cloud domain in Cloud Native Security. For example, the dot com map can cover multiple servers internally. Cloud Native Security flags all URLs exposed to the public and other vulnerabilities. When we get alerts from the Offensive Security Engine, it has some internal debugging tools the developers can use.
What needs improvement?
The Kubernetes scanning on the Oracle Cloud needs to be improved. It's on the roadmap. AWS has this capability, but it's unavailable for Oracle Cloud.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used Cloud Native Security for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Cloud Native Security is highly stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Cloud Native Security is scalable.
How are customer service and support?
I rate Cloud Native Security support nine out of ten. They solve issues within the agreed-upon period. They're impressive.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We previously used the native AWS tools like Inspector. Cloud Native Security is impressive compared to those.
How was the initial setup?
It's easy to integrate Cloud Native Security and onboard all our cloud accounts. Before implementing, we tried to have all the security best practices in place. If you do that, it's easier to fix the vulnerabilities when Cloud Native Security detects them. Deployment took about five or six minutes.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We opted for Business Plan at an affordable rate, providing excellent value for your investment. While I'm not entirely certain, I believe the monthly cost is around 180,000 rupees.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We looked at Trend Micro and some other options.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Cloud Native Security nine out of ten. Use this tool if you want to keep your cloud applications secure.
Offers a wide range of security features, including misconfiguration detection and easy to set up and use
What is our primary use case?
It's a cloud-based SaaS tool. It's a cloud security partnership management tool. It gives you an overview of misconfigurations, Kubernetes security, Docker security, vulnerability scanning, and secret scanning.
What is most valuable?
Atlas security graph is pretty cool. It maps out relationships between components on AWS, like load balancers and servers. This helps visualize potential attack paths and even suggests attack paths a malicious actor might take.
What needs improvement?
Maybe container runtime security could be improved. But with the acquisition by a bigger company, things might roll out faster, potentially including this feature.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using it for six months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It's been stable in my experience.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Since it's a managed service, Cloud Native Security handles scalability. There are around 15 end users in my company using it.
How are customer service and support?
We could just contact the CEO directly with any questions. It was a small team back then, but I don't think that's the case anymore since they've been acquired.
Previously, it was just a 50-person team, and the CEO would hop on the call to solve the problem.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is super easy! It's a SaaS portal, so no deployment is needed. Just configuration that takes about half an hour.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It was reasonable pricing for me. The costing model might have changed now since they have been acquired.
What other advice do I have?
I would advise integrating your Kubernetes clusters for extra features.
Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten because I'm happy with Cloud Native Security overall.
The number of features Cloud Native Security offered with just a small team was phenomenal. Give them another six months to a year, and it could be one of the best tools out there.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
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Difficulty in integrating the tool seamlessly into existing systems
Cost:
High in Cost
False Positives:
False Positives rate is high
Offers advanced components to safeguard your multi-cloud environment
What is our primary use case?
Cloud Native Security offers the flexibility to create a customized solution that fits our specific needs. It's a comprehensive tool encompassing the central elements—PSC, PPP, and more.
What is most valuable?
It is advantageous in terms of time-saving and cost reduction.
What needs improvement?
There's an array of upcoming versions with numerous features to be incorporated into the roadmap. Customers particularly appreciate the service's emphasis on intensive security, especially the secret scanning aspect. During the proof of concept (POC) phase, the system is required to gather logs from the customer's environment. This process entails obtaining specific permissions, especially in terms of gateway access. While most permissions for POC are manageable, the need for various permissions may need improvement, especially in the context of security.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Cloud Native Security for the past six months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I'd rate it an eight. It's a reliable solution that the organization is increasingly adopting for its robust features and security.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is quite scalable. I would rate it an eight out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
They are helpful.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Prisma Cloud seemed limited in its solutions and had to acquire other companies for broader offerings, while Cloud Native Security provided more comprehensive and tailor-made solutions, especially in terms of authentic security features.
How was the initial setup?
The setup isn’t easy because it doesn't support Azure. It's something on the roadmap. It doesn't limit itself to a particular hypervisor.
What about the implementation team?
For now, we don't handle the maintenance. It's all managed by the vendor for our customers.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It's not expensive. The product is in its initial growth stages and appears more competitive compared to others. It comes in different variants, and I believe the enterprise version costs around $55 per user per year. I would rate the pricing a five, somewhere fairly moderate.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate it 8 out of 10.