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Upwind Agentless Cloud Scanners

Overview​

Upwind Agentless Cloud Scanners operate seamlessly with our eBPF sensor-centric approach, giving organizations more flexibility to easily get deep context in areas where installing sensors can't simply happen or where it's very difficult to deploy, such as:

  • Serverless containers: AWS Fargate, Google Cloud Run, Azure Container Instances
  • Functions: AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions
  • Virtual Machines: with older OS versions

This combination of real-time monitoring from the Upwind sensor, paired with comprehensive scanning from Upwind's Agentless Cloud Scanners, ensures that all aspects of your infrastructure are fully discovered and protected – and that you can be up and running in minutes, no matter the complexity of your environment.

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Using Upwind's Agentless Cloud Scanners​

Upwind's Agentless Cloud Scanners are designed to be quick to deploy, easy to operate and efficient to use. The scanners operate as autoscaling groups that scan virtual machines (VMs) in a region in which they are deployed, snapshotting every disk in a VM to scan it and find misconfigurations, malware, exposed secrets and vulnerabilities.

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Setting Up Upwind's Agentless Cloud Scanners​

Upwind Agentless Cloud Scanners are currently available for AWS and have multiple deployment options, including AWS CloudFormation and Terraform. View additional deployment information here.

Once you have deployed Upwind Agentless Cloud Scanners, you will be able to view findings in existing modules of the Upwind Cloud Security Platform, including:

  • Vulnerability Management: Scans for vulnerabilities are integrated into Upwind's vulnerability management capabilities , which display both vulnerabilities found by Upwind's Agentless Cloud Scanners and vulnerabilities found at runtime by the Upwind sensor.
  • Threat Detection: Consistent malware scanning is performed by Upwind's Agentless Cloud Scanners to identify any malicious files, in addition to coverage provided by the Upwind sensor. Results from both are shown in the Threats module of the Upwind Platform.
  • Cloud Security Posture: Upwind's Agentless Cloud Scanners scan for exposed secrets, exposing any findings in the Exposed Secrets Tab .
  • Inventory: Upwind's Agentless Cloud Scanners provide fast, comprehensive visibility into your cloud infrastructure and applications, which are viewable in the Inventory module of the Upwind Platform. You can also view and manage all of your currently deployed scanners in the Inventory module.