We’ve just released Cortex v1.1 (https://github.com/cloudpassage/cortex), and while some changes may seem subtle, they greatly improve the functionality and efficiency of Cortex, giving you an even more seamless experience. Some of the changes you’ll see include: File-based configuration for scheduled…
Tag: integration
Auditing Linux environments using LIDS and ‘auditd’
If you use LIDS at all, your life is about to get easier: Recently we released nine new templates for the CloudPassage Halo log-based intrusion detection system, (LIDS) which consists of different rules/policies for ‘auditd’. The CloudPassage Halo log-based intrusion…
Announcing our official partnership with Sumo Logic!
The CloudPassage Halo platform just got even better thanks to a new partnership with Sumo Logic, the leading cloud-native, machine data analytics platform. With this partnership, IT Ops, DevOps, and security teams can now share a comprehensive, near-real-time view of…
RSA award roundup
It’s been a banner week for us here at CloudPassage! In this season of Grammys, Globes, Oscars, Spammies, and so many more, we’ve garnered four technical excellence awards for Halo. While this may not impress Patriots fans, we’re extremely gratified…
New Slack integration for Halo: Don-Bot
There’s a new tool in the Halo Toolbox and it’s called Don-Bot, and it has nothing to do with the Futurama character. This Don-Bot is named after our mascot, Don T. Daemon. Don-Bot is a Slack bot that allows you…
CloudPassage releases Python SDK for Halo
CloudPassage today announced the release of the Python SDK for Halo. The release includes tools, libraries, documentation and sample code to allow for fast, easy integration of Halo with other applications and tools. We’re excited to make this available to…
Video: There is no configuration that stays constant in the cloud (Black Hat 2016)
Guest blog by David Spark, Spark Media Solutions “If you don’t have a metric on something, how do you know what normal looks like?” asked Aaron McKeown, lead security architect and cloud security product owner for Xero in our conversation…
Video: How Xero uses CloudPassage to get security into the hands of developers
Guest blog by David Spark, Spark Media Solutions “We have to get developers thinking about security at the start of the entire development lifecycle. And that even comes down to the fact that it’s mandatory to put tools like our…
Will we be able to control data in the wild? (Black Hat 2016)
Guest blog by David Spark, Spark Media Solutions “Once the data is out there, it’s out of their control,” said Elliot Lewis (@elliotdlewis), VP of security, risk, and compliance research at Info-Tech Research Group, in our conversation at the Black…
Video: Will your cloud provider play nice with your third-party security vendor?
Guest blog by David Spark, Spark Media Solutions When a company moves to the cloud, there are many parties responsible for security. Even with contracts, it may not always be clear where the boundaries of responsibility between the companies, the users, the…