AWS GuardDuty vs Lacework comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 9, 2023

We performed a comparison between AWS GuardDuty and Lacework based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.

Ease of Deployment: Lacework has been described as straightforward to deploy, while AWS GuardDuty can be difficult to integrate when introduced to non-Amazon services.

Features: AWS GuardDuty is a continuous cloud security monitoring service that can provide threat detection across multiple Amazon accounts. Lacework is a cloud security service that prioritizes alerts based on their severity and finds vulnerabilities and anomalies in the user’s cloud system. Both services are noted to be in need of improvement in their data mapping and patching components.

Pricing: Both products have been described as having decent pricing, however, users have noted that AWS GuardDuty’s “per-gigabyte” licensing can get more expensive as the number of individual accounts increases.

Service and Support: The support of both services is described as timely, responsive, and reliable.

ROI: Users of Lacework noticed a return on investment in the form of a reduced amount of manual monitoring, while with AWS GuardDuty, they noted that the ROI is more qualitative than quantitative and is difficult to measure exactly.

Comparison results: Based on the parameters we compared, Lacework comes out ahead of AWS GuardDuty. While AWS GuardDuty uses multi-log sourcing to use as input to analyze traffic, it lacks Lacework’s ability to integrate easily with services outside of AWS.

To learn more, read our detailed AWS GuardDuty vs. Lacework Report (Updated: May 2024).

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As of June 2024, in the Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 1.6%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AWS GuardDuty is 11.1%, down from 11.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Lacework is 1.8%, down from 3.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Akshay Somnath Pakhare

IT Engineer at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

May 9, 2024

Evidence-based reporting shows all the findings and severity, helping us to prioritize issues

We provide cloud services on our site using AWS. Singularity detects flaws that we must close for security reasons. We use Singularity to observe those findings and fix things based on the customer's requirements. Previously, we used to segregate issues and look after them. Singularity helped us secure our infrastructure. We've significantly reduced our potential security breaches to a minimum. It has improved how we operate on a larger scale. We set up the platform, onboarded the info, and then gradually moved further. Over time, it helped us slowly resolve those issues. We were using the cloud platforms' native security tools, but those were unhelpful. Now, we rely on this more than those services. Singularity reduced our false positive rate by about 60 percent. We've had even better results in terms of our risk posture. We can rely on this tool to improve our security conditions on a broader scale. If I gave our security posture a percent rating, I would give it 89 percent. The solution saves time by giving us everything in one place. You don't need to manually check every account. It tells us a lot. Singularity reduces our detection time by about 60 percent. Singularity has improved collaboration among cloud security, application developers, and AppSec teams. Previously, it would take around a week for engineers to address issues. Now that we use this tool, we resolve issues in one or two days.

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Has a simple setup process and a valuable intrusion detection feature

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Daniel Vukadinovic

Techology Operations Lead at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Mar 29, 2023

Continuously monitors our compliance, and automation eliminates need for team of people

What they could improve is communicating their changes to customers. Most changes are being communicated through the Lacework portal, whereas I would appreciate it if those changes were communicated through a personalized email, with generous advanced notice, before they actually implemented them. For example, to understand the context, last year just before Christmas, when we stopped working during the last two weeks in December, they introduced API changes. When I came back to work in the first week of January, lots of things broke in our CI/CD pipelines because they weren't working with the old API version. Another thing that I would like, a feature that I have requested from them, is the ability to sort alerts and policies based on a security framework. Right now, when you go into alerts, you have hundreds and hundreds of them that you have to manually pick. It would be useful to have categories for CIS Benchmark or SOC 2 and be able to display all the alerts and policies for one security framework. The filtering of alerts could be improved.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The UI is very good."

"PingSafe's integration is smooth. They are highly customer-oriented, and the integration went well for us."

"It is very straightforward. It is not complicated. For the information that it provides, it does a pretty good job."

"As a frequently audited company, we value PingSafe's compliance monitoring features. They give us a report with a compliance score for how well we meet certain regulatory standards, like HIPAA. We can show our compliance as a percentage. It's also a way to show that we are serious about security."

"It's positively affected the communication between cloud security, application developers, and AppSec teams."

"The ease of use of the platform is very nice."

"Cloud Native Security is user-friendly. Everything in the Cloud Native Security tool is straightforward, including detections, integration, reporting, etc. They are constantly improving their UI by adding plugins and other features."

"PingSafe's graph explorer is a valuable tool that lets us visualize all connected services."

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"The product has automated protection powered by AI/ML, which is now far more powerful than before. It uses AI/ML in its detection algorithm, providing fast and quick results."

"What I like most about Amazon GuardDuty is that you can monitor your AWS accounts across, but you don't have to pay the additional cost. You can get all your CloudTrail VPC flow logs and DNS logs all in one, and then you get the monitoring with that. A lot of times, if you had a separate tool on-premise, you would have to set up your DNS logs, so usually, Amazon GuardDuty helps with all your additional networking requirements, so I utilize it for continuous monitoring because you can't detect anything if you're not monitoring, and the solution fills that gap. If you don't do anything else first, you can deploy your firewall, and then you've got your Route 53 DNS and DNSSEC, but then Amazon GuardDuty fills that, and then you have audit requirements in AU that says, "Hey, what are your additional logs?", so you can just say, "Hey, we utilize Amazon GuardDuty." You're getting your CloudTrail, your VPC flow logs, and all your DNS logs, and those are your additional logs right there, so the solution meets a lot of requirements. Now, everything comes with a cost, but I also like that the solution also provides threat response and remediation. It's a pretty good product. I've just used it more for log analysis and that's where the value is at, the niche value. Once you do threat detection, it goes into a lot of other integrations you need to implement, so threat detection is only good as the integration, as the user that knows the tools itself, and the architecture and how it's all set up and the rules that you set within that."

"It kinda just gives us another layer of security. So it does provide some sort of comfort that we do have something that is monitoring for abnormal behavior."

"We have over 1,000 employees, and we monitor their activity through AWS GuardDuty."

"One of the advantages of cloud services is the ability to use them on demand. There's minimal installation involved; you can check the latest offerings and make new deployments while dismantling the previous ones. This approach keeps you ahead of potential services, showcasing the agility of AWS."

"What we found most valuable in Amazon GuardDuty is its threat detection feature, especially because we were monitoring a huge number of AWS accounts, so we needed a solution that would monitor for any kind of malicious activity. The monitoring aspect of the solution was great because it gave us timely notifications if and when anything happened, and Amazon GuardDuty helped keep us on our toes to make sure we took action right away."

"It helps us detect brute-force attacks based on machine learning."

"The out-of-band malware detection from the EBS volumes. It's really cool. No agents or anything needed, it automatically finds and correlates based on malware."

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"The compliance reports are definitely most valuable because they save time and are accurate. So, instead of relying on a human going through and checking or providing me with a report, I could just log into Lacework and see for myself."

"There are many valuable features that I use in my daily work. The first are alerts and the event dossier that it generates, based on the severity. That is very insightful and helps me to have a security cap in our infrastructure. The second thing I like is the agent-based vulnerability management, which is the most accurate information."

"The most valuable feature, from a compliance perspective, is the ability to use Lacework as a platform for multiple compliance standards. We have to meet multiple standards like PCI, SOC 2, CIS, and whatever else is out there. The ability to have reports generated, per security standard, is one of the best features for me."

"Lacework is helping a lot in reducing the noise of the alerts. Usually, whenever you have a tool in place, you have a lot of noise in terms of alerts, but the time for an engineer to look into those alerts is limited. Lacework is helping us to consolidate the information that we are getting from the agents and other sources. We are able to focus only on the things that matter, which is the most valuable thing for us. It saves time, and for investigations, we have the right context to take action."

"Polygraph compliance is a valuable feature. In our perspective, it delivers significant benefits. The clarity it offers, along with the ability to identify and address misconfigurations, is invaluable. When such issues arise, we promptly acknowledge and take action, effectively collaborating with our teams and the responsible parties for those assets. This enables us to promptly manage problems as soon as they arise."

"The most valuable aspects are identifying vulnerabilities—things that are out there that we aren't aware of—as well as finding what path of access attackers could use, and being able to see open SSL or S3 buckets and the like."

"The best feature, in my opinion, is the ease of use."

"For the most part, out-of-the-box, it tells you right away about the things you need to work on. I like the fact that it prioritizes alerts based on severity, so that you can focus your efforts on anything that would be critical/high first, moderate second, and work your way down, trying to continue to improve your security posture."

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Cons

"The categorization of the results from the vulnerability assessment could be improved."

"When we request any changes, they must be reflected in the next update."

"We don't get any notifications from PingSafe when the clusters are down."

"Maybe container runtime security could be improved."

"We wanted it to provide us with something like Claroty Hub in AWS for lateral movement. For example, if an EC2 instance or a virtual machine is compromised in a public subnet based on a particular vulnerability, such as Log4j, we want it to not be able to reach some of our databases. This kind of feature is not supported in PingSafe."

"In terms of ease of use, initially, it is a bit confusing to navigate around, but once you get used to it, it becomes easier."

"PingSafe can improve by eliminating 100 percent of the false positives."

"here is a bit of a learning curve. However, you only need two to three days to identify options and get accustomed."

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"The product needs to improve its cost-efficiency since it is expensive."

"AWS GuardDuty sometimes shows false positives and should have better detection accuracy."

"An improvement would be to have a mobile version where remote workers can log in and monitor and fix issues."

"It is evolving, and at the moment, I will just need it on a larger scale. Then, it will satisfy my demand, initially."

"There is currently no consolidated dashboard for AWS GuardDuty. It would be helpful if they could provide a dashboard based on severity levels (high, medium, low) and offer insights account-wise, especially for users utilizing automation structures."

"Amazon GuardDuty could be better enriched in threat intelligence data."

"The solution has to be integrated with new services that AWS adds like QuickSight, Managed Airflow, AppFlow and MWAA."

"Some of the pain points in Amazon GuardDuty was the cost. When compared to some of the other services, depending on how many we had to monitor, if we had a huge range of accounts, as our accounts increased, we had a cost factor that came into play. Sometimes there were issues, for example, with findings that came up, we wanted to add notes and there were issues back then where notes couldn't be entered properly. If we wanted to leave a note such as "Okay, we have assessed this and this is how we feel", or "This is a false positive", Amazon GuardDuty wasn't allowing us to do that. Even with the suppression of certain findings, there was some issue that we had faced at one time. Those were some of the pain points of the solution."

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"The configuration and setup of alerts should be easier. They should make it easier to integrate with systems like Slack and Datadog. I didn't spend too much time on it, but to me, it wasn't as simple as the alerting that I've seen on other systems."

"There are a couple of the difficulties we encounter in the realm of cybersecurity, or security as a whole, that relate to potentially limited clarity. Having the capacity to perceive the configuration aspect and having the ability to contribute to it holds substantial advantages, in my view. It ranks high, primarily due to its role in guaranteeing compliance and the potential to uncover vulnerabilities, which could infiltrate the system and introduce potential risks. I had been exploring a specific feature that captured my interest. However, just yesterday, I participated in a product update session that announced the imminent arrival of this feature. The feature involves real-time alerting. This was something I had been anticipating, and it seems that this capability is now being integrated, possibly as part of threat intelligence. While anomaly events consistently and promptly appear in the console, certain alerts tend to experience delays before being displayed. Yet, with the recent product update, this issue is expected to be resolved. Currently, a comprehensive view of all policies is available within the console. However, I want a more tailored display of my compliance posture, focusing specifically on policies relevant to me. For instance, if I'm not subject to HIPAA regulations, I'd prefer not to see the HIPAA compliance details. It's worth noting that even with this request, there exists a filtering mechanism to control the type of compliance information visible. This flexibility provides a workaround to my preference, which is why it's challenging for me to definitively state my exact request."

"The biggest thing I would like to see improved is for them to pursue and obtain a FedRAMP moderate authorization... I don't believe they have any immediate plans to get FedRAMP moderate authorized, which is a bit of a challenge for us because we can only use Lacework in our commercial environment."

"Lacework has not reduced the number of alerts we get. We've actually had to add resources as a result of using it because the application requires a lot of people to understand it to get the value out of it properly."

"Lacework lacks remediation features, but I believe they're working on that. They're focused on the reporting aspect, but other features need to improve. They're also adding some compliance features, so it's not worth saying they need to get better at it."

"A feature that I have requested from them is the ability to sort alerts and policies based on a security framework. Right now, when you go into alerts, you have hundreds and hundreds of them that you have to manually pick. It would be useful to have categories for CIS Benchmark or SOC 2 and be able to display all the alerts and policies for one security framework."

"I would like to see a remote access assistance feature. And the threat-hunting platform could be better."

"Visibility is lacking, and both compliance-related metrics and IAM security control could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It was reasonable pricing for me."

"Singularity Cloud Workload Security's pricing is good."

"PingSafe falls somewhere in the middle price range, neither particularly cheap nor expensive."

"Singularity Cloud Security by SentinelOne is cost-efficient."

"PingSafe falls within the typical price range for cloud security platforms."

"It is not that expensive. There are some tools that are double the cost of PingSafe. It is good on the pricing side."

"The pricing is fair. It is not inexpensive, and it is also not expensive. When managing a large organization, it is going to be costly, but it meets the business needs. In terms of what is out there on the market, it is fair and comparable to what I have seen, so I do not have any complaints about the cost"

"PingSafe is cost-effective for the amount of infrastructure we have. It's reasonable for what they offer compared to our previous solution. It's at least 25 percent to 30 percent less."

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"The tool's licensing model is pay-as-you-go."

"Pricing is determined by the number of events sent."

"In terms of the costs associated with Amazon GuardDuty, it was $1 per GB from what I recall. Pricing was based on per gigabyte. For example, for the first five hundred gigabytes per month, it'll be $1 per GB, so it'll be $500. If your usage was greater, there's another bracket, for example, the next two thousand GB, then there's an add-on cost of 50 cents per GB. That's how Amazon GuardDuty pricing slowly goes up. I can't remember if there was any kind of additional cost apart from standard licensing for the solution. Nothing else that at least comes to mind. What the service was charging was worth it. That was one good thing when using Amazon GuardDuty because my company could be in a certain tier for a certain period. My company wasn't under a licensing model where it could overestimate its usage and under-utilize its usage and pay much more. This was what made the pricing model for Amazon GuardDuty better."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a high price, and ten is a low price, I rate the pricing a four or five, which is somewhere in the middle."

"I prefer to have something on demand for myself. That's why I haven't been paying for GuardDuty specifically. AWS provides a wide range of offerings, especially in the security area."

"GuardDuty only enables accounts in regions where you have an active workload. If there are places where you don't have an active workload, you wouldn't even enable them. That's one area where they could allow you to cut down your cost."

"The pricing model is pay as you go and is based on the number of events per month."

"The platform is inexpensive."

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"It is slightly expensive. It depends on how big your environment is, but it is expensive. Right now, we are spending a lot of money. We have covered all of the cloud providers and most of our colocation facilities as well, so we cannot complain, but it is slightly expensive. It is not super expensive."

"The licensing fee was approximately $80,000 USD, per year."

"The pricing has gotten better. That scenario was somewhat unstable. They have a rather interesting licensing structure. I believe you get 200 resources per "Lacework unit." It was difficult, in the beginning, to figure out exactly what a "resource" was... That was a problem until about a year or so ago. They have improved it and it has stabilized quite a bit."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about PingSafe?

The dashboard gives me an overview of all the things happening in the product, making it one of the tool's best featu...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PingSafe?

I'm not aware of the exact pricing.

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What needs improvement with PingSafe?

When I joined my organization, I saw that PingSafe was already implemented. I started to use the tool's alerting feat...

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What do you like most about Amazon GuardDuty?

With anomaly detection, active threat monitoring, and set correlation, GuardDuty alerts me to any unusual user behavi...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon GuardDuty?

The tool's licensing model is pay-as-you-go.

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What needs improvement with Amazon GuardDuty?

The product needs to improve its cost-efficiency since it is expensive.

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How would you compare Wiz vs Lacework?

Wiz and Lacework sucks... Buy Orca.

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What do you like most about Lacework?

Polygraph compliance is a valuable feature. In our perspective, it delivers significant benefits. The clarity it offe...

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It is slightly expensive. It depends on how big your environment is, but it is expensive. Right now, we are spending ...

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Overview

Singularity Cloud Security is SentinelOne’s comprehensive, cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP). It combines the best of agentless insights with AI-powered threat protection, to secure and protect your multi-cloud infrastructure, services, and containers from build time to runtime. SentinelOne’s CNAPP applies an attacker’s mindset to help security practitioners better prioritize their remediation tasks with evidence-backed Verified Exploit Paths™. The efficient and scalable runtime protection, proven over 5 years and trusted by many of the world’s leading cloud enterprises, harnesses local, autonomous AI engines to detect and thwart runtime threats in real-time. CNAPP data and workload telemetry is recorded to SentinelOne’s unified security lake, for easy access and investigation.

Singularity Cloud Security includes both agentless and AI-powered cloud security controls, which represent two halves of our strategy to keep public cloud and container environments safe. Radically reduce your cloud attack surface with Singularity Cloud Native Security, formerly PingSafe, with agentless insights and evidence-based prioritization; protect runtime compute and container with Singularity Cloud Workload Security, SentinelOne’s real-time CWPP, with AI-powered machine-speed blocking of threats.

Amazon Guard Duty is a continuous cloud security monitoring service that consistently monitors and administers several data sources. These include AWS CloudTrail data events for EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) audit logs, VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) flow logs, DNS (Domain Name System) logs, S3 (Simple Cloud Storage), and AWS CloudTrail event logs.

Amazon GuardDuty intuitively uses threat intelligence data - such as lists of malicious domains and IP addresses - and ML (machine learning) to quickly discover suspicious and problematic activity in a user's AWS ecosystem. Activities may include concerns such as interactions with malicious IP addresses or domains, exposed credentials usage, or changes and/or escalation of privileges.

GuardDuty is able to easily determine problematic AWS EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances delivering malware or mining bitcoin. It is also able to trace AWS account access history for evidence of destabilization. such as suspicious API calls resulting in changing password policies to minimize password strength or anomalous infrastructure deployments in new or different never-used regions.

GuardDuty will continually alert users regarding their AWS environment status and will send the security discoveries to the GuardDuty dashboard or Amazon CloudWatch events for users to view.

Users can access GuardDuty via:

AWS SDKs: Amazon provides users with several software development kits (SDKs) that are made up of libraries and sample code of numerous popular programming languages and platforms, such as Android, iOS, Java, .Net, Python, and Ruby. The SDKs make it easier to develop programmatic access to GuardDuty.
GuardDuty HTTPS API: This allows users to issue HTTPS requests directly to the service.
GuardDuty Console: This is a browser-based intuitive dashboard interface where users can access and use GuardDuty.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Kubernetes protection is an optional add-on in Amazon GuardDuty. This tool is able to discover malicious behavior and possible destabilization of an organization's Kubernetes clusters inside of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).

When Amazon EKS is activated, GuardDuty will actively use various data sources to discover potential risks against Kubernetes API. When Kubernetes protection is enabled, GuardDuty uses optional data sources to detect threats against Kubernetes API.

Kubernetes audit logs are a Kubernetes feature that captures historical API activity from applications, the control plane, users, and endpoints. GuardDuty collates these logs from Amazon EKS to create Kubernetes discoveries for the organization's Amazon EKS assets; there is no need to store or turn on the logs.

As long as Kubernetes protection remains activated, GuardDuty will continuously dissect Kubernetes data sources from the Amazon EKS clusters to ensure no suspicious or anomalous behavior is taking place.

Amazon Simple Cloud Storage (S3) Protection

Amazon S3 allows Amazon GuardDuty to actively audit object-level API processes to discover possible security threats to data inside an organization's S3 buckets. GuardDuty continually audits risk to the organization’s S3 assets by carefully dissecting AWS CloudTrail management events and AWS CloudTrail S3 data events. These tools are continually auditing various CloudTrail management events for potential suspicious activities that affect S3 buckets, such as PutBucketReplication, DeleteBucket, ListBucket, and data events for S3 object-level API processes, such as PutObject, GetObject, ListObject, and DeleteObject.

Reviews from Real Users

“The most valuable features are the single system for data collection and the alert mechanisms. Prior to using GuardDuty, we had multiple systems to collect data and put it in a centralized location so we could look into it. Now we don't need to do that anymore as GuardDuty does it for us.” - Arunkumar A., Information Security Manager at Tata Consultancy Services

Lacework is a cloud security platform whose Polygraph Data Platform automates cloud security at scale so customers can innovate with speed and safety. Lacework is the only security platform that can collect, analyze, and accurately correlate data across an organization’s AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes environments, and narrow it down to the handful of security events that matter. As a breach detection and investigation tool, Lacework provides information on when and how a breach happened, including the users, machines, and applications involved in the breach. By using machine learning and behavioral analytics, the solution can automatically learn what's normal for your environment and reveal any abnormal behavior. In addition, Lacework gives you continuous visibility to find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and malicious activity across your cloud environment.

Lacework Features

Lacework has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Dashboards
Reports
Workflow management
Administration console
Governance
Policy enforcement
Auditing
Access control
Workflow management
Compliance monitoring
Anomaly detection
Data loss prevention
Cloud gap analytics
Host compliance

Lacework Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Lacework. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Security visibility: Get deep observability into your cloud accounts, workloads, and microservices to give you tighter security control.

Threat detection: By using Lacework, your organization can identify common security events that target your cloud servers, containers, and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) accounts so you can take action on them quickly.

Flexible deployment: With Lacework, you have the option to deploy the way you prefer - either agent or agentless - which provides the visibility needed to have maximum security for cloud accounts and systems. Because Lacework offers an easy-to-deploy layered approach, you gain quick time to value.

Configuration compliance: With the Lacework solution, you can easily spot IaaS account configurations that are non-compliant and identify opportunities to apply security best practices.

Synced teams: Lacework allows your teams to operate smarter and bridge the gap between security, Dev, and Ops regardless of your team's size or experience level.

Gain meaningful security insights: Lacework provides meaningful security insights, alerting you of issues before they reach production from your existing workflows. This way you can build apps quickly and confidently.

Increased revenue streams: Because the solution has built-in security from the first line of code early on, it helps users unlock higher revenue streams.

Helps avoid development delays: The Lacework solution helps you better prioritize security fixes by making security information accessible to DevOps and security teams for earlier risk mitigation that speeds innovation.

Increased productivity: Lacework provides alerts with all the context you need and eliminates data silos and costly investigations, enabling you to boost productivity.

Correlate and contextualize behaviors: Lacework can take attributes and data points from your unique environment and correlate them together into behaviors.

Simplified cloud security posture and compliance: With the Lacework platform, you can get comprehensive visibility and continuous tracking to reduce risks and meet compliance requirements so you can improve your bottom line.

Address vulnerabilities before it is too late: Lacework enables you to limit your attack surface so you can address the riskiest vulnerabilities early in the development cycle.

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