What Is Cloud Security Monitoring?

Cloud security monitoring encompasses several processes that allow us to review, manage, and observe operational workflows in cloud environments.

Cloud security monitoring combines manual and automated processes to track and assess the security of servers, applications, software platforms, and websites.

Our cloud security experts monitor and assess the data held in the cloud on an ongoing basis. They identify suspicious behavior and remediate cloud-based security threats. If we identify an existing threat or vulnerability, we can address the issue quickly and mitigate further damage.

Benefits of Cloud Security Monitoring

Cloud security monitoring allows you to:

Maintain compliance – most major regulations, such as PCI DSS and HIPAA, require monitoring. Organizations using cloud platforms should leverage observation tools to comply with these regulations and avoid penalties.
Discover vulnerabilities – it is important to maintain visibility over your cloud environments to identify vulnerabilities. We use a suite of automated observation tools to quickly create tickets to alert security teams and help them identify suspicious behavior patterns and indicators of compromise (IoCs).
Avoid business disruptions – security incidents can disrupt business operations or force you to shut them down altogether. Disruptions and data breaches can impact customer trust and satisfaction, so it is important to monitor your cloud environments to maintain business continuity and data security and business continuity.
Protect sensitive data – a cloud security monitoring solution to perform regular audits and keep your data secure. We monitor the health status of your security systems and provide recommendations for implementing security measures.
Leverage continuous monitoring and support – AvantGuard’s cloud security management service can monitor your system 24/7. While maintaining security on-premises requires physical monitoring at regular intervals, cloud-based services allow you to implement continuous monitoring, significantly decreasing the risk of letting threats slip unnoticed.

How Does Cloud Security Monitoring Work?

AvantGuard offers native cloud security monitoring tools built for your cloud infrastructure. We leverage monitoring solutions connected to your cloud environment. Also, we use logs from the on-premise security solutions to gain visibility and insight into your cloud environment.

Our cloud monitoring tools aggregate log data from multiple servers, instances, containers, and services. The advanced cloud monitoring solution correlates and analyzes collected data to identify anomalous activity and alert our incident response team. AvantGuard’s solution provides the following capabilities:

Continuous monitoring – a cloud monitoring solution should continuously monitor all activity in the cloud, allowing you to detect suspicious behavior in real time and mitigate the threat.
Visibility – when you migrate to the cloud, you reduce your visibility across your organization’s infrastructure. Cloud security monitoring can centralize monitoring and provide a unified view of user, file, and application behavior.
Auditing – powerful monitoring and auditing capabilities can help you maintain compliance with the regulations applying to your organization.
Scalability – cloud security monitoring tool can monitor large volumes of data distributed in various locations.
Integration – works with existing productivity suites (such as Google Workspace G Suite or Microsoft 365), endpoint security solutions, and identity verification and authentication services.

Cloud Security Monitoring acts as an overlay for many of the current systems you rely on every day to prevent security threats to cloud environments. These systems include:

Endpoint Detection & Response
Multi-Factor Authentication

Our tools help to understand this huge volume of information, arriving as many data streams in different formats, by normalizing and storing it in a central repository. It then correlates and aggregates the data to provide security insights and generate actionable alerts for resolution.

Use cases for Cloud Security Monitoring

Suspicious events can be detected by examining data like logon events, changes to user permissions or roles, services starting or stopping in the environment, detection of malware, and unusual bandwidth usage.

Here are a few examples that illustrate how our cloud security monitoring can help detect a cloud security incident:

Unauthorized user login – Our solution can detect when a user logs in directly to your cloud services from unusual locations. This could indicate the user’s account might have been compromised, and the bad actors are looking for ways to access data they should not have access to.