Cloud-based threat intelligence has become an imperative cloud security measure for organizations to stay ahead of cybercriminals and safeguard their businesses in the future. By carefully partnering with the right cloud service provider and choosing the right cloud-based threat intelligence solutions, organizations can gain real-time insights about emerging potential cyber threats and achieve enhanced agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Mearas, an experienced cloud service provider, provides an advanced level of cyber resilience to your cloud platforms against security vulnerabilities. With expertise in developing, managing and safeguarding cloud environments, Mearas Technologies uses AI-powered technologies, centralized operation centers, and comprehensive statistics and analysis to safeguard the cloud infrastructure. Let’s learn more about cloud-based threat intelligence and its benefits for modern cybersecurity.
What is Cloud-based threat intelligence?
Cloud-based threat intelligence is all about using the power of cloud computing to gain valuable insights into emerging threats and improve their overall security posture. It involves the process of collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information about potential and emerging cyber threats to organizations in order to take appropriate action. Internal security logs, pooled threat databases, and open-source data are some of the sources from which this information is gathered. It aims to provide actionable information that helps organizations anticipate, prepare for, and successfully address cyber threats.
Unlike traditional threat intelligence, which may rely on on-premises systems, cloud-based threat intelligence uses cloud computing technology to provide real-time threat identification. By providing a broader understanding of emerging and existing threats, this threat intelligence solution provides unmatched security against cyber intrusions, enabling organizations to accelerate the modernization of business-critical applications.
What is the need for cloud-based threat intelligence and how will Mearas implement it?
According to Fortune Business Insights, the global cloud security market was valued at USD 37.87 billion in 2023 and is expected to reach USD 156.25 billion by 2032, exhibiting a CAGR of 17.3% during the forecast period. Gartner also predicts that over the next two years, 70% of organizations plan to increase their cloud security spending. With this growing use of the cloud, organizations must accelerate the adoption of cloud-based threat intelligence solutions to protect their data, applications, and infrastructure services from cyber threats.
Understanding the importance of strong cloud security measures for enhanced data protection and minimizing security incidents and breaches, Mearas Technologies conducts a thorough assessment of your data-driven workload ecosystem to detect, prevent potential threats, and secure the organization. Our threat intelligence system leverages advanced threat detection and prevention technologies, help identify and gather all the insights indicating potential threats. These data insights come from internal security logs or publicly available sources. With the goal of protecting your entire cloud architecture from external and internal threats, we work towards establishing centralized cloud security to help organizations gain visibility across cloud environments and misconfigurations, understand security gaps, and automatically address them.
Benefits of cloud-based threat intelligence
Compared to traditional on-premises setups, cloud environments are highly dynamic in nature, with resources constantly being provisioned and de-provisioned, making the vulnerable to a wider range of threats. Thus, it becomes an essential shared security responsibility between cloud service providers and customers, where CSPs are responsible for securing the infrastructure while customers keep data and applications secure. Cloud-based threat intelligence solutions offer organizations several benefits, some of which are:
- It enables organizations to identify and respond to threats before they impact their systems.
- Threat intelligence helps security teams assess the relevance and seriousness of threats by providing detailed context for detected threats.
- These threat intelligence platforms provide detailed incident analysis, which helps in understanding the root cause of the incident and also helps in future threat detection and response strategies.
- These threat intelligence platforms support security operation center teams by offering a centralized dashboard for managing and monitoring cloud security.
- It also helps handle threats more quickly and with less potential impact by automatically initiating pre-planned response actions, like blocking malicious IP addresses, isolating impacted resources, and alerting pertinent staff, upon detection of a danger.
- Cloud-based threat intelligence solutions provide compliance automation features, which help organizations, identify security gaps and reduce the risk of regulatory penalties.
- These threat intelligence platforms integrate seamlessly with other security tools and platforms, such as cloud security posture management (CSPM) and identity and access management (IAM), to detect misconfigurations, automation and response (SOAR), security information and event management (SIEM), and endpoint detection and response (EDR).
Build robust, secure cloud architectures with Mearas’ cloud-based threat intelligence
Mearas aims to create a centralized cloud security system that has skilled attack surface management. We present threat tracking solutions that use security logs, such as endpoint detection and response (EDR), security information and event management (SIEM), and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR). Tools like identity and access management (IAM) and cloud security posture management (CSPM) can also identify improper setups, protocol violations, and unauthorized logins. Furthermore, our IDPS (intrusion detection and prevention system) monitors network traffic for hostile behavior.
We use a predictive approach when mapping out a cloud migration strategy. When any anomalies are detected, our threat indicator systems record the trends and notify your security engineers. We specialize in foreseeing assaults before they occur with our complete Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) for the cloud. Our precautionary measures, along with predictive threat management capabilities, offer a reliably safe environment for your cloud assets.
Set up a free strategy call with us right now, or contact us at adesai@mearastec.com, if you want to secure your operations and data from malicious assaults and online vulnerabilities.
Q1. What is cloud-based threat intelligence, and how does it differ from traditional threat intelligence?
A1. Cloud-based threat intelligence is a cyber security approach that aims to provide timely insights into potential and existing cyber threats by collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information about cyber threats through cloud platforms. Cloud-based threat intelligence leverages the cloud computing platform to provide real-time insights about existing or emerging cyber threats, while traditional threat intelligence relies on on-premises solutions and provide delayed updates about cyberthreats.
Q2. What is the need for cloud-based threat intelligence?
A2. Cloud-based threat intelligence helps in incident response investigations (helping organizations identify the root cause of attacks), risk assessment (helping conducting more effective risk assessments), threat hunting (helping identifying potential threats before they cause harm), and vulnerability management (helping organizations prioritize vulnerability patching efforts).
Q3. Can small businesses benefit from cloud-based threat intelligence?
A3. Absolutely, cloud-based threat intelligence is very scalable, meaning that small enterprises and organizations of all sizes may use it. Because it provides affordable solutions without requiring large upfront expenditures in hardware or infrastructure, even smaller businesses can benefit from modern cybersecurity.
Q4. Is it easy to integrate cloud-based threat intelligence into an existing security framework?
A4. Cloud-based threat intelligence can integrate seamlessly with existing security tools like SIEM systems, IDPS, EDR solutions, CSPM tools, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems. This integration improves overall protection by guaranteeing that threat intelligence is deployed uniformly throughout the organization’s security architecture.