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Blue Hexagon, a leading agentless cloud-native AI platform, today announced the world’s first unified harden and defend multi-cloud security platform that combines two cloud security pillars – harden and defend – into a single platform designed to reduce DevSecOps friction, catch threats and misconfigurations early via deep learning, and improve compliance.

Blue Hexagon’s Cloud Security Platform allows customers to both harden their cloud – including cloud visibility, cloud compliance, and misconfiguration detection – and detect active threats – for workload, storage and network threats – without relying on outdated signatures, IOCs and threat intelligence feeds. Blue Hexagon connects directly to a customer’s cloud infrastructure in an agentless manner in minutes using Cloud Service Provider (CSP) native APIs to collect raw data from cloud resources in every region, account, configuration, control-plane activity, network activity, serverless packages and containers pushed to repositories. This raw data is analyzed by the Blue Hexagon platform using proprietary deep learning models to detect malware, command and control, beaconing, and behavior analytics to uncover unusual patterns in the cloud control plane and data plane.

Hardening Outcomes: Blue Hexagon provides visibility into asset inventory and cloud activity, detects several hundred misconfigurations in more than 100 different services across AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI and aids in compliance with multiple standards like CIS, HIPAA and PCI. Blue Hexagon provides coverage for 12 out of the 20 CIS-recommended controls.

Threat Defense Outcomes: Blue Hexagon provides sub-second identification of both known and unknown threats with near 100 percent accuracy, and natively works with cloud infrastructure for visibility and enforcement. By applying deep learning to network traffic, storage activity and workloads, Blue Hexagon is able to identify both known and unknown threats with greater than 99 percent accuracy in network traffic, container/K8S workloads and cloud storage, usually in less than a second.

Blue Hexagon provides actionable security visibility with network, workload and storage as well as user and entity insights. The solution also helps achieve continuous compliance including misconfigurations and cloud intrusion detection. Blue Hexagon is trusted by leading healthcare, e-commerce, insurance and financial services companies and has received positive feedback from many customers including Prime Communications and Pacific Dental Services.

Blue Hexagon has been recognized in Forbes AI 50 for Next Gen NDR innovation, included in the 2020 Gartner Market Guide for Network Detection and Response, named to CNBC’s Upstart 100 list of “World’s Most Promising Startups,” was tested by Miercom as the most effective of four leading security products against the most lethal zero-day malware, ransomware, worms, botnets and evasive malicious threats and was named to the 2021 CB Insights AI-100 list of “Most Innovative Artificial Intelligence Startups,” CRN’s “10 Hottest AI Security Companies You Need to Know,” Analytics Insights “Top 100 Artificial Intelligence Startups to Lookout for in 2021.” The company recently won several 2022 industry awards for cloud security including the Silver Globee Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards for Hot Security Technology of the Year for Artificial Intelligence in Security.

Blue Hexagon, the world’s only multi-cloud agentless CNAPP powered by Deep Learning solution company, received the Silver Globee Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards for Hot Security Technology of the Year for Artificial Intelligence in Security. Created in 2003, the Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards are one of the world’s most coveted prizes for business achievements to individuals and organizations of every size and form all over the world. 

Blue Hexagon received the Silver Award for its Agentless Cloud-Native AI Security Platform. Blue Hexagon Agentless AI Security provides Real-Time Threat Defense for all workloads including against zero-day threats, without impacting performance and privacy. The solution allows mid to large cloud-enabled organizations to get actionable visibility and control for cloud compute, network and storage across multi-cloud and multi-platform deployments. 

Blue Hexagon has been recognized in Forbes AI 50 for Next Gen NDR innovation, included in the 2020 Gartner Market Guide for Network Detection and Response, named to CNBC’s Upstart 100 list of “World’s Most Promising Startups”, was tested by Miercomas the most effective of four leading security products against the most lethal zero-day malware, ransomware, worms, botnets and evasive malicious threats, was named to the 2021 CB Insights AI-100 list of “Most Innovative Artificial Intelligence Startups”, CRN’s “10 Hottest AI Security Companies You Need to Know”, Analytics Insights “Top 100 Artificial Intelligence Startups to Lookout for in 2021”, and most recently awarded the 2022 Silver Globee Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards for “Hot Security Technology of the year | Artificial Intelligence in Security.

Blue Hexagon, a leading agentless cloud-native AI Security platform, today announces their latest integration with AWS S3 Object Lambda. With this integration, customers can deploy Blue Hexagon Cloud Security for AWS to protect their cloud environment against ransomware and advanced threats targeting their AWS workloads, network and S3 storage. Powered by Real-Time Deep Learning AI, Blue Hexagon scans files in S3 storage and network in sub-seconds to convict and classify ransomware and malware. With the latest Object Lambda integration, any attempt to access an object in an enabled AWS S3 bucket is gated by the Blue Hexagon Lambda integration that grants access only to a benign object while denying access to any object deemed malicious by the Blue Hexagon Deep Learning AI platform. 

AWS S3 is a scalable, managed storage platform for business applications ranging from Pinterest to large healthcare companies like Pacific Dental for storing, processing and archiving data. With work-from-home being more prevalent in the last two years, data privacy and security is of paramount importance for customers of the public cloud and is top of the mind for CISOs and Security Architects. The growing need to both prevent unauthorized access to AWS S3 and to prevent the use of AWS S3 buckets as a vector for malware is becoming critical. Threat actors are increasingly gaining access to legitimate applications by uploading malicious payloads indirectly through the application into AWS S3 or directly through stolen credentials. 

With Blue Hexagon AWS S3 Object Lambda integration, cloud-first and cloud-enabled enterprises can:

• Stop ransomware and any malware from infiltrating their cloud environment. 
• Prevent unauthorized access to AWS S3 from malicious hosts. 
• Deploy robust user, application and cloud security, by preventing lateral movement of threats.
• Achieve cloud storage compliance with instant detection and full visibility. 

For security leaders, having the ability to better assess compliance, security, privacy and cloud-migration risks is of top priority. To ensure your cloud migration efforts are supported by effective and adaptive cloud security strategies, Blue Hexagon will be working with SC Media and Nemi George, CISO of Pacific Dental Services, for joint presentation at a two-day virtual event—Secure Cloud Migration: Create a plan for flexibility, scalability and automation – starting Tues., September 14 at 7:45 a.m. PT/10:45 a.m. ET, where industry leaders will share their insights and experiences on cloud migration security strategies. 

Attendees will learn how to enforce consistent security and policy compliance with modern AI-powered cloud solutions and ensure that their cloud migration efforts are on the right flight path, supported by an effective and adaptive cloud security strategy. Also, security professionals will earn 6.5 CPE credits by attending the event session.

To attend SC Media’s Secure Cloud Migration eSummit, please register here: https://www.scmagazine.com/esummit/secure-cloud-migration?source=bluhexagon

Modern cloud threats, such as supply chain attacks, use TTP’s involving malware and command-and-control to infiltrate VPC’s through the network and persist in managed storage, such as AWS S3 to achieve their objectives later. To mitigate these threats, AWS and Blue Hexagon recently announced a new service and native integration that combines breaking new ground in supercharging the ability to block these threats natively and in real-time. Blue Hexagon will be hosting a webinar with Dr. Arun Raman, VP of Cloud, Blue Hexagon, and James Wenzel, Sr. Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services —Security News: Stop Modern Threats and Supply Chain Attacks Natively in Cloud—on Wed., September 8, at 10 am PT/1 pm ET. In this live session, DevSecOps and Security pros will learn how to:

• Deploy cloud service integrations for true multi-vector defense.
• Secure the cloud against modern threats, without requiring any code changes. 
• Maintain an effective runtime cloud security posture.
• Reduce DevOps overhead and accelerate time to deploy.

To attend this webcast, please register here: https://www.sans.org/webcasts/security-news-stop-modern-threats-and-supply-chain-attacks-natively-in-cloud/?source=bluehexagon1

Blue Hexagon Agentless AI Security provides the most accurate threat detection from the network vantage point and supersedes legacy signature-based network controls and sandbox technologies. Blue Hexagon dynamically detects novel threats that may be trying to infiltrate and spread in the cloud environment and creates and updates IP/domain block-rules within AWS Network Firewall in real time to drop connections and stop threats in their tracks. Real-Time Threat Defense is designed for all workloads including against zero-day threats, without impacting performance and privacy. Continuous Compliance allows mid to large cloud-enabled organizations to maintain and meet compliance requirements for multi-vector, multi-cloud and multi-platform deployments. Deploy in minutes and manage integration using CloudFormation templates and apply the advanced protection firewall policy uniformly across VPCs, regions, and accounts. 

Blue Hexagon has been recognized in Forbes AI 50 for Next Gen NDR innovation, included in the 2020 Gartner Market Guide for Network Detection and Response, named to CNBC’s Upstart 100 list of “World’s Most Promising Startups”, was tested by Miercom as the most effective of four leading security products against the most lethal zero-day malware, ransomware, worms, botnets and evasive malicious threats and was named to the 2021 CB Insights AI-100 list of “Most Innovative Artificial Intelligence Startups”, CRN’s “10 Hottest AI Security Companies You Need to Know”, and most recently recognized by Analytics Insights “Top 100 Artificial Intelligence Startups to Lookout for in 2021”.