Company
Date Published
Author
Jean-Claude Kuo
Word count
787
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The Datadog Security Graph is a tool designed to enhance cloud security by modeling cloud environments as dynamic, relationship-aware graphs, addressing the challenge of understanding how compute, storage, identity, and networking components interact. Traditional security tools often struggle with visualizing multi-hop access paths, making it difficult to assess potential vulnerabilities such as which EC2 instances can access sensitive S3 buckets and whether they are exposed to the internet. The Security Graph provides a comprehensive view of cloud resources as interconnected nodes and relationships, offering security teams the ability to visualize, query, and analyze access paths, identity policies, and risk exposure effectively. By revealing both direct and transitive relationships, it helps identify potential attack paths, misconfigurations, and overly permissive access, allowing for proactive risk management and remediation. With features like prebuilt queries, a no-code query builder, interactive visualizations, and Access Insights, the Security Graph empowers users to investigate and respond to cloud security threats swiftly, providing a holistic understanding of cloud risks. Currently in preview, the tool is available to Datadog Cloud Security users, with options for new users to explore through a free trial.