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"It is an absolutely stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.""Since our environment is cloud based and accessible from the internet, we like the ability to check where the user has logged in from and what kind of API calls that user is doing.""Deployment is great, and we didn't face any big challenges.""The solution provides AWS GuardDuty S3 protection, EKS runtime protection, and malware protection.""It is a highly scalable solution since it is a service by AWS. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.""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.""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.""The most valuable features are the single system for data collection and the alert mechanisms."

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"They have multiple great features."

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Cons
"The solution's user interface could be improved because it will help users to understand multiple options.""It would be great if the solution had some automation capabilities.""We currently find Lacework to be much better at detecting vulnerabilities than AWS GuardDuty. The engines of AWS GuardDuty have to be improved.""AWS GuardDuty needs to be more customer-oriented.""One improvement I would suggest for AWS GuardDuty is the ability to assign findings to specific users or groups, facilitating better communication and follow-up actions.""I work in a bank, and it would be good if AWS GuardDuty could be integrated with other monitoring and detection tools we use.""Amazon GuardDuty could be better enriched in threat intelligence data.""Cost changes. It's very expensive. If you turn on every feature, it's more than most commercial vendors. For smaller orgs, that doesn't make sense."

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"We end up facing a lot of issues after upgrades."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "We use a pay-as-you-use license, which is competitively priced in the market."
  • "I don't have all the details in terms of licensing for Amazon GuardDuty, but my organization does have a license set up for it."
  • "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."
  • "Pricing is determined by the number of events sent."
  • "The pricing model is pay as you go and is based on the number of events per month."
  • "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."
  • "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 tool has no subscription charges."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:With anomaly detection, active threat monitoring, and set correlation, GuardDuty alerts me to any unusual user behavior or traffic patterns right away, which is great for staying on top of potential… more »
    Top Answer:80 percent of the customers are using AWS GuardDuty, and we recommend it due to its low cost, especially for small customers, ranging from five to ten dollars a month. In our policies, we enforce the… more »
    Top Answer:One improvement I would suggest for AWS GuardDuty is the ability to assign findings to specific users or groups, facilitating better communication and follow-up actions. It would be beneficial to have… more »
    Top Answer:They have multiple great features.
    Top Answer:The pricing is moderate compared to other products in the market. However, it is not the cheapest option. Depending on the requirements and how it is used, it's worth the money spent.
    Top Answer:The one thing missing is the IPS part, the blocking part. We end up facing a lot of issues after upgrades.
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    Overview

    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

    Uptycs is the first unified CNAPP and XDR platform.

    Your developer’s laptop is just a hop away from cloud infrastructure. Attackers don’t think in silos, so why would you have siloed solutions protecting public cloud, private cloud, containers, laptops, and servers?

    Uptycs combines multiple security measures into one easy-to-use system, eliminating the need for multiple tools and reducing the risk of cyber attacks. With Uptycs, you can automate security and connect insights across your enterprise. Uptycs ties together threat activity across on-prem and cloud boundaries, delivering a more cohesive enterprise-wide security posture. With Uptycs security teams can reduce operating costs, deployment times, and security failures.

    Shift up with Uptycs.

    Key benefits:

    • Unified platform: Uptycs provides a single platform to cover various security needs, from laptops to cloud environments, reducing complexity and the need for multiple tools.
    • Reduced risk: The platform helps prioritize responses to threats, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, sensitive data exposure, and compliance mandates, leading to a more cohesive enterprise-wide security posture.
    • Improved decision-making: Uptycs helps users make better risk decisions by providing insights from a large volume and variety of security and IT data, without relying on black boxes.
    • Coverage of modern attack surfaces: The platform protects digital assets across heterogeneous infrastructure, including hybrid cloud, containers, laptops, and servers, using standardized telemetry and open standards.
    • Comprehensive security capabilities: Uptycs offers various security features, including CNAPP, XDR, CWPP, KSPM, CSPM, CIEM, CDR, threat detection, investigation and forensics, remediation and blocking, and additional security controls.
    • Enhanced Kubernetes and container security: Uptycs provides complete visibility and control over Kubernetes and container environments, including asset inventory, compliance, vulnerabilities, and threat detection.
    • Extended Detection and Response (XDR): The platform offers industry-leading XDR for endpoint protection, detection, and investigation, correlated with signals from other environments, for macOS, Windows, and Linux endpoints.
    • Threat Detection and Response: Uptycs analyzes system telemetry in real-time to detect threats and provides context to help analysts quickly triage and investigate detections.
    • Scalability: The platform is designed to accommodate growing security needs and adapt to future cybersecurity challenges.
    • Improved visibility and control: Uptycs offers comprehensive visibility and control across various cloud environments, workloads, and deployments, helping security teams identify and prioritize risks effectively.
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    Financial Services Firm43%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Media Company7%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Financial Services Firm17%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Healthcare Company5%
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    Computer Software Company36%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Non Profit6%
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    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise52%
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    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise67%
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    Small Business44%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise46%
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    AWS GuardDuty is ranked 4th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 20 reviews while Uptycs is ranked 24th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 1 review. AWS GuardDuty is rated 8.0, while Uptycs is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AWS GuardDuty writes "A stellar threat-detection service that has helped bolster security against malicious threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Uptycs writes "Great features, good support, and lots of functionality". AWS GuardDuty is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Wiz and Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP, whereas Uptycs is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, Wiz, Orca Security and Lacework.

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