Title: AWS re:Inforce 2024 - Merging cloud security with on-premises: How to centralize your SOC (TDR223-S)

Insights:

• Holistic SOC View: The presentation emphasizes the importance of integrating cloud security with existing on-premises systems to provide a centralized and comprehensive view for the Security Operations Center (SOC).
• Cloud Migration Benefits: Moving to the cloud offers significant advantages such as cost efficiency, scalability, and resilience. Technologies like containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) facilitate this transition.
• Security Challenges: Security teams face increased complexity due to the hybrid nature of IT environments, which now span both on-premises and cloud infrastructures. This complexity is exacerbated by the rapid adoption of new technologies and the pressure to deliver more services with limited budgets.
• Siloed Tools Issue: Many organizations use separate security tools for on-premises and cloud environments, leading to duplicated efforts and siloed alerts that lack comprehensive context.
• Business Context in Security: Effective security management requires understanding the business context of different applications. This involves knowing the criticality of applications, the data they handle, and their impact on the business.
• Unified Security Platform: A unified security platform that integrates data from both on-premises and cloud environments is essential. This platform should provide real-time insights, detect anomalies, and prioritize alerts based on business impact.
• Darktrace Solution: Darktrace offers a platform that provides visibility across both on-premises and cloud environments. It uses AI to understand normal patterns and offers autonomous response capabilities to contain threats.
• Deployment Flexibility: Darktrace supports various deployment methods, including agentless log collection from AWS and optional agent deployment for additional data. It also integrates with multiple SaaS applications and on-premises networks.

Quotes:

• "We are reinforced after all. But today I want to be zooming out a bit and covering not only cloud security but also how it relates into what you already have in place to give your SOC team a more holistic and centralized view of your entire IT landscape."
• "Buying servers, racking, stacking, powering, cooling, cabling, all of those things, it's not very efficient. So we can take advantage of the economies of scale by leveraging different technologies that cloud service providers offer."
• "Applications are running where they're best for the business and not where they're best for security."
• "Too many tools out there. Today, many companies are running duplicate security stacks with tools that are meant for on premise."
• "What you need to make the correct decision here is business context. It's not just the location of the door, but it's the understanding of what is behind the door."
• "Different business use cases should be treated differently because applications are different."
• "The only way to do this successfully is by having all data flow through the same set of models and produce alerts across the entire architecture."
• "Darktrace is able to understand the normal patterns of your users, applications, and resources across not only your on-premise applications, but those that are running in the cloud, no matter what part of the cloud journey you're on."
• "We cover not only cloud environments, but also on-premise environments. We cover things like email, endpoints, as well as operational technology."
• "The idea is to have the data come into the Darktrace platform and then wherever you want to handle any of those incidents, whether it's some ticketing system downline or some notification system downline, we can integrate."