Kaspersky enhances cloud workload security with update

Kaspersky has announced a significant update to its Cloud Workload Security offering, enhancing forensic features and improving runtime and orchestrator security measures for organisations.

The update aims to address security challenges identified in a recent report by Kaspersky and ISG, titled "Alleviating Cloud Migration Difficulties with Robust Hybrid-Cloud and Container Security." The report finds that 78% of organisations are currently using cloud-native technologies, with 43% planning to expand their use over the next two years, despite 60% encountering difficulties in identifying vulnerabilities and risks via continuous scanning.

With the updates to Kaspersky Cloud Workload Security, the offering now includes enhanced forensic functionality. This provides deeper insight into system events, allowing security teams to identify risks, vulnerabilities, the source of potential attacks, and to monitor subsequent events more efficiently. The expanded runtime file operation monitoring feature allows tracking of actions such as file creation, modification, opening and saving, which improves visibility into security risks.

Further advancements include an orchestrator security problem analysis feature. This offers a comprehensive overview of security issues, categorised by cluster and orchestrator. The analysis covers various aspects of security, such as access control, orchestrator configuration, networking, workload security, and secret management. The update also adds file threat protection for orchestrator nodes, enhancing the security level of critical infrastructure.

Kaspersky CWS also introduces automatic container profiling to detect abnormal behaviour across individual containers, groups, and clusters. This improvement simplifies policy creation while strengthening overall security. The solution now supports deployments of several thousand nodes, accommodating large enterprises with complex containerised environments.

The update includes a new Light Agent for Windows in Kaspersky Hybrid Cloud Security, allowing Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows to work in Light Agent mode. This development brings the solution to feature parity with the common KESW Agent and enhances protection for hybrid cloud environments.

Anton Rusakov-Rudenko, Senior Product Marketing Manager of the Cloud & Network Security Product Line at Kaspersky, commented: "As businesses continue to accelerate their adoption of cloud-native technologies, they face growing challenges in securing complex cloud environments. Threat detection, forensic analysis and runtime security must evolve to keep pace with modern cyber risks."

Rusakov-Rudenko continued, "With this update, Kaspersky Cloud Workload Security strengthens protection, providing deeper visibility, enhanced threat detection and greater scalability. Our goal is to empower organisations with the tools they need to confidently secure their cloud infrastructure while maintaining efficiency and compliance in an increasingly dynamic digital landscape."