Cloud computing threat intelligence platforms: The next big thing?

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Editorial Staff.

With FireEye Inc.’s announcement of a new threat analytics platform for Amazon Web Services, threat intelligence for the cloud is now becoming a reality. But will cloud-based threat analytics systems displace traditional security information and event management products and threat analytics systems in the near future?

Announced last week, FireEye’s threat analytics platform (TAP) for Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the first of its kind because, according to Milpitas, Calif.-based FireEye, the product was built natively on Amazon’s cloud and it combines FireEye’s threat intelligence with event monitoring and analytics across AWS as well as a client’s on-premise IT environment…

"We wanted to build a threat analytics platform that CISOs thought was missing for the cloud," Grady Summers, vice president of strategic solutions at FireEye, said. "It combines the intelligence you need to detect emerging or unknown threats with the speed with which you need to react and the context you need to understand the threats."…

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