It’s no secret that the vast majority of enterprises now operate on cloud infrastructure. 94% of enterprises use cloud infrastructure and 92% use a multicloud strategy. This shift has made a great deal of business operations easier and cheaper. Why pay to maintain a whole warehouse of your own servers when you could just rent exactly the amount of server space you need from a third party provider? However, as business ops become easier, maintaining an aggressive security posture with such a dynamic and interconnected network becomes more difficult.
Companies who use cloud infrastructure need a new solution to help them overcome these difficulties without wasting their valuable time buried in third party configurations. Think of Gomboc’s AI platform as your own personal cloud infrastructure expert who spends 24 hours a day getting you from where you are to where you need to be. Let’s explore the challenges that arise from using cloud infrastructure and how a dedicated AI platform can help tackle them.
Security Concerns with Cloud Infrastructure
Whether you use AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, a different provider or, most likely, some combination of these, you are going to be faced with two huge security issues. The first and biggest is visibility. When you introduce a turn-key, third party solution into your environment, you add a massive entrance point to your network and attack surface.
This on its own is not detrimental, since networks are designed to be accessed. However, when you combine that with an inability to see what’s under the hood or make changes to the technology, you lose an element of autonomy to control what your attack surface looks like.
For example, when the log4shell exploit was released and took the world by storm in 2021, many companies falsely assumed they did not have any instances of log4j on their network. However, many of them did have log4j libraries on their network, but they were unable to see this or do anything about it because they were hidden inside third party technology.
The second issue is configuration. Misconfigurations remain one of the biggest ways to exploit a company’s network. These must be meticulously tailored and constantly updated as the network changes. When companies fail to do so, they are allowing attack vectors to open up as the settings do not match the company’s needs.
What’s more, when you can open these tools up to make changes, you risk creating ripple effects that break other functions. Companies need a new way to understand and affect changes in their configurations without opening a pandora’s box of other issues.
Leveraging Deterministic AI
When you combine the two issues mentioned above, it can be a nightmare for even the most sophisticated security team to maintain good IT hygiene on their network. None of these problems are particularly new to the world of cybersecurity, but they are issues to which the market has not yet found an airtight solution.
This is where AI can be a major asset in a security pro’s toolbox. Gomboc specializes in providing tailored solutions for cloud consumers. By crafting security policies based on user-defined needs and offering visibility into cloud consumption, our platform utilizes AI to bridge the gaps between user expectations and their current cloud configurations. Their technology simplifies the complexity of cloud parameters, with a one-size-fits-all approach for major cloud providers, addressing infrastructure management challenges and aiding customers in securing their code within the confines of the chosen cloud tech stack.
Here’s How It Works
Our approach is centered around understanding and anticipating your unique needs as you engage with cloud services. You play a crucial role in defining the security policies that align with your objectives. By providing us visibility into your cloud consumption patterns, we conduct a thorough analysis, doing the math between your aspirations and your existing cloud configuration. Where discrepancies arise between what you desire and what you currently have, Gomboc’s AI platform creates and delivers effective fixes.
The cloud is a vast and complex space. You shouldn’t necessarily need to understand all of it to make use of it, and most users don’t really care. It's the knobs, switches, and toggles — the interface that public cloud customers must configure — which matters. With tens of thousands of parameters, it takes a massive amount of time and expertise to optimally configure these. Even teams that do possess such expertise would put it to better use building their product than fiddling with their infrastructure configurations.
These infrastructures may be complex, but they are finite and well documented systems. This means that a computer can make sense of such a build, even though these days no two are exactly the same. Using deterministic AI, Gomboc’s platform can simplify this intricate landscape into actionable intelligence. We craft a precise understanding of your infrastructure to produce a treasure trove of actionable information that we package and make available to you. Using this information, we then provide you with the tools to seamlessly navigate the cloud, ensuring your security policies align with your unique requirements.
The Gomboc platform is not as much a security tool as it is an extra Senior DevSecOps Engineer. But instead of being here to take jobs away, this engineer really enjoys doing the boring security and compliance remediation tasks that normally slow down innovation. This frees up real-life senior DevOps engineers who've been working through these tickets to focus on higher-level problems like scaling infrastructure and ensuring availability. By taking all the infrastructure security-related tasks off of your to-do list, we help you overcome the challenges presented by any and all misconfigurations.
To get started using AI to optimize your Cloud Infrastructure Security today, click here.
%20Minella_Hero_1920x1080.png)