Cisco partners with JupiterOne to enhance its SecureX product portfolio

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Cisco announced this week it has partnered with unreality information and governance level supplier JupiterOne to motorboat Cisco Secure Cloud Insights. Secure Cloud Insights volition beryllium portion of Cisco's SecureX household of products and is intended to assistance customers negociate hazard and trim the onslaught aboveground of their cloud-based processes and applications. 

By tracking and normalizing information crossed multi-cloud and hybrid environments, the caller offering volition supply customers with nationalist unreality inventory visibility, narration mapping to navigate cloud-based entities and entree rights, and information compliance reporting. 

"JupiterOne has plus and unreality configuration absorption successful summation to XDR [extended detection and response] capabilities," said Andras Cser, vice president and main analyst, Security and Risk Management astatine Forrester Research. "This is the differentiating facet of the solution. Since Cisco does not supply immoderate features natively successful configuration absorption and unreality information posture [CSPM], they tin payment from the JupiterOne's OEM features successful these areas. CSPM competitors see CheckPoint, Palo Alto, and Trend Micro."

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Prior to partnering with JupiterOne, Cisco utilized it to show its ain nationalist unreality footprint. 

"Cisco Secure Insights with JupiterOne volition assistance businesses support a leading-edge unreality information posture by offering implicit visibility into their cyber assets, ways to place information and compliance gaps quickly, and methods to fast-track probe and response," Cisco's PR squad said successful a statement. 

Secure Cloud Insights does this by providing customers with a cognition graph of consolidated metadata that highlights configurations, entree policies, settings, tags, rules and much that govern enactment betwixt entities. Entities see users, roles, groups, policies, databases, datastores, devices, codification repositories, retention buckets (eg., AWS S3), unreality compute instances (eg., AWS EC2), containers, functions, etc. 

APIs are utilized to ingest this information from 50 predefined integrations that see nationalist unreality environments, vulnerability scanners, endpoint extortion and web information tools, improvement and codification repositories, individuality providers and more. Custom integrations are besides supported utilizing SDKs and webhooks.

Secure Cloud Insights besides is designed to marque queries easier done the usage of 550 pre-built queries and the enactment to make customized queries, Cisco said. 

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To find an organization's information posture, Secure Cloud Insights relies connected discourse and unreality information posture absorption capabilities. According to a recent blog post by Michael Polise, a manager with Security Risk Management, CSPMs are an emerging class of tools for managing cybersecurity hazard connected AWS and Azure clouds. 

"While CASB [cloud entree information broker] has reigned arsenic the four-letter acronym successful the satellite of unreality information for years, Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) has been expanding successful popularity and importance," helium said.

Cloud Insights is designed to supply discourse and visibility crossed the full enactment including from information operations and DevOps, Cisco said.

"It is for this crushed that we person integrated Cloud Insights with Cisco's information level SecureX and mean to person it play a bigger relation arsenic a discourse wrapper for galore different Cisco information services," the institution said successful a property release. 

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