Qualys helps security teams to build cloud visibility with CloudView

CloudView provides infrastructure visibility from cloud providers like AWS and Microsoft

Cloud workloads will represent more than 90 per cent of data centre traffic by 2020, says Cisco. To prepare, it is important for InfoSec teams to adapt to the cloud workflow and define the security responsibility that they share with cloud providers. A new app framework, developed by Qualys, aims to do this by extending visibility of security and compliance from cloud hosts to the entire cloud infrastructure.

The new Cloud Platform app framework, CloudView, has been demonstrated at Black Hat 2017 in Las Vegas. It provides continuous visibility of cloud infrastructure from major providers like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud in a ‘single pane of glass.'

The framework can be used to continuously monitor and secure public cloud infrastructure, augmenting Qualys' current view with a real-time inventory of cloud services. The first apps built using it are Cloud Inventory and Cloud Security Assessment.

Cloud Inventory integrates with the APIs from public cloud providers to continuously discover resources and automate security monitoring against industry standards and architectural best practices. Users can also gain visibility across all clouds. Cloud Security Assessment provides continuous security monitoring, threat prioritisation and automated security through the DevOps pipeline.

"Accelerated cloud adoption requires new adaptive security solutions that support fast-moving digital transformation efforts," said Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO of Qualys. "Our new CloudView and its apps add unparalleled visibility and continuous security of all cloud workloads to provide customers complete cloud security in a single, integrated platform and drastically reducing their spend."

Qualys will launch the beta of CloudView for AWS in Q4 this year.