Amazon Web Services (AWS) Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs containing network flow metadata offer a powerful resource for security. Not only can you log all IP flows in a VPC network with help from flow logs, but you can also use this data to perform various types of flow analysis.
That brings security and network processes practiced in AWS environments closer to those practiced for conventional IT. Importantly, as you will see here, flow logs help enable a very specific security technology called entity modeling, which can significantly improve your network security and overall AWS server understanding.
Since its inception, Cisco® Stealthwatch Cloud has been transforming the way companies get value from flow metadata with our entity modeling solution. Entity modeling uses flow data much in the same way a credit card company uses transaction data.
The technology builds a model of normal activity from observed device behavior, and uses this model to spot changes in behavior that may be due to misuse, malware, or compromise.
To put it another way, Stealthwatch Cloud helps you stop chasing cybercriminals and their never-ending myriad of exploits, malware, and other threats by trying to keep up with their signatures.
Instead, you can focus your security efforts on the very small number of significant and automatically detected deviations from established patterns and activities, as identified by entity modeling.
And the best thing about our technology: it’s available as a subscription service, so you don’t have to worry about capital expenditures and long-term financial
commitments.
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