Sysdig Cloud Security and Observability

Neutral

We use Sysdig Secure to gain visibility into our runtime workloads. We use a whole bunch of security tools to scan our images before they get deployed into our production clusters. We needed a tool to give us runtime visibility and threat detection.

By implementing Sysdig Secure, we were trying to see any gaps. When an image is running, we wanted to see if any high or medium-scale vulnerabilities were picked up during the scanning and were running in a live workflow. We understood that we had a gap there. If there was a threat for us, we wanted to make sure that we knew and that we could scan our environment for any zero-day threats or vulnerabilities in general.

The main benefit for me personally is being able to articulate the ever-growing, dynamic, and constantly changing landscape. Just today, in a management leadership call, I was able to demonstrate that although we are solving a lot of these vulnerabilities, we are picking up new vulnerabilities each and every day. It allows me to articulate the importance of information security with actual real-time data.

Sysdig's runtime insights help us detect and respond to threats that are happening in real-time. We can look at Sysdig dashboards or run reports to see precisely what happens in our runtime environment. A good use case of this was that when zero-day vulnerabilities came out, we could scan our environment to see if the vulnerabilities apply to any of our production workloads.

Sysdig Secure helps us prioritize issues and distribute work. We are a small company, so we do not have multiple security or dev teams. We have two or three guys on my team. Having the ability to focus on critical vulnerabilities is crucial. It does not make sense to prioritize low-level threats when we have limited time.

We do not use live threat investigation features as much as we would like because of different priorities, but it is something that we do use. Over time, it shows us whether we are putting the right effort into resolving issues. For example, when we look at the dashboard scene over a 30-day period, we can see whether the critical vulnerabilities are increasing or decreasing. It lets us know whether we are on the right track.

We are currently using agentless scanning. Deploying it onto our cluster has enabled us to get full visibility into what is running on our cluster.

Sysdig provides us with the contextual awareness we need to create an immediate incident response strategy. It provides links to the threat and explains the threat and the resolution possible. It equips us with the right information to make a decision on whether to address the threat immediately or take a risk in terms of deploying remediation.

Sysdig has not enabled us to reduce the number of security tools we use. We were not using anything before Sysdig, and after choosing Sysdig, we did not have a need to look at anything else.

Sysdig has not helped reduce external SOC costs. We are a very small business, so we do not have the budget for an external SOC. However, it has definitely alleviated the pressure to look for one and to source an external SOC. We have a project history to look at a virtual SOC and leverage tools that we do have, and Sysdig is a part of that. There is definitely a saving there because we have not had the need to go out and look for an external SOC.

Sysdig has helped reduce the percentage of workloads that have security exposures that put the organization at risk. It has reduced the workload, mainly from an understanding of where we can assign work to cover the most ground in terms of resolving vulnerabilities.

The most valuable feature is the level of support that we get. Our solutions or customer success representative is very valuable. I see them as an extension of our security team. In terms of the product itself, it is able to very clearly give us where we are in terms of security and threats in the environment.

Reporting can definitely be better. Live dashboards should be configurable for a longer period of time rather than 30 days. Being able to go back in time to compare six months ago to today would be valuable.

We have used Sysdig Secure for a few years. We have probably gone through two renewals.

It has been extremely stable. We have never had any issues with it. I would rate it a ten out of ten for stability.

I would rate it a ten out of ten for scalability. We have not had any issues. It has not been slow or anything like that.

We have approximately 25 people using this solution. They are from the engineering team and the DevOps team.

I would rate their customer service an eight out of ten purely because I have it in a proactive manner. I meet our solutions engineer every fortnight, so I usually do not require support at all.

Positive

We were not using any similar solution previously.

It was extremely straightforward. We just installed the agent, and then we could see the dashboard light up. It took a few hours.

It is deployed on the cloud. The cloud deployment is at one location, but the agent is installed at multiple locations.

One person was involved in its deployment.

We have definitely seen an ROI time-wise and resource-wise. I feel that I have an extension to our security team with this service. It gives us a lot of visibility that we would not have otherwise. It has saved 50% of an information security professional.

I am always going to say that it could be a little bit cheaper. I do feel that it is a little bit on the expensive side.

If you have the right approach to resolving vulnerabilities, it is an extremely useful tool. It is not useful if you plan to just have it deployed and not take action on any of the vulnerabilities.

I would rate Sysdig Secure a nine out of ten. If it has better reporting capabilities to visualize trends over time, it will be a more complete product.

We use Sysdig for cloud and Kubernetes  posture management, including Kubernetes  workload security, image vulnerabilities, and pipeline vulnerabilities. We use it across 2 of our cloud vendors: AWS  and GCP.

Sysdig helps us improve the maturity of our cloud and Kubernetes posture. Before implementing Sysdig, we did not have alot of visibility into what our developers were doing. We had lots of observability tools, but we didn't have any security observability tools. We wanted to ensure we could see what was being done from a configuration standpoint and compare that to best practices. We also wanted to detect and respond to any threats that might appear on the Kubernetes side of things.

It allows us to fill any gaps within our configuration. We don't have regulatory compliance requirements within our business, but we still want to adopt the best practices, and Sysdig enables us to identify gaps efficiently. Sysdig has its own ranking to push the critical priorities to the top. We can apply these standards, like ISO, CIS, NIST, etc., to improve the security posture in our cloud or Kubernetes environment.

Sysdig is user-friendly. Many other vendors we seriously considered had vast, complicated interfaces. Sysdig makes it quick and easy to do what you need to do. That's one thing I like about the platform, It takes you seconds to find what you want. There are not a lot of submenus or complex UI components. 

The other valuable feature is runtime detection. The enhanced visibility they have within Kubernetes is longer than the workload. The visibility and the depth of information make a security professional's job a lot easier. It helps us sleep at night because we know that can get information about threats that we need when we need it. 

Sysdig's biggest weakness is dashboarding and reporting. You already have access to the data and can get everything you need, but we also need the ability to summarize the information quickly in a format that senior leaders can understand. We report to the executive level and global board. I need to roll all that in-depth information into a quick summary, and their maturity level isn't there. I'm seeing that on the future road map, but it isn't there now. 

We have used Sysdig for about 8 months.

We haven't faced any performance problems or downtime, which is one reason we selected Sysdig. The competitors are so slow. It takes 3 or 4 times longer to open their platforms than it would open Sysdig.

Sysdig is incredibly scalable from the perspective of adding accounts and clusters. We do everything in code, so that makes it easy for us. We add it to the right repo, and it just pushes it out. We haven't had many scalability problems.

We don't have hundreds of thousands of accounts or clusters. We're relatively small—around 150 clusters. Because our guys have done everything in code, it's quite easy for us to scale up and down when required.

I rate Sysdig support 8 out of 10. We have an assigned Sysdig Solutions Architect who we meet with every 2 weeks. He goes above and beyond. He's extremely attentive to our tenancy and requirements. I get messages from him saying, "Oh, I've been working on this. Here's a solution to that thing you're talking about." or 'I've just checked these reports for you and found this." 

The proactiveness of the support has been fantastic. Every time we mention something in a meeting that we're trying to do, he proactively takes that as an investigation topic and looks into it. He'll provide the solution even though we might not have asked him to investigate it. He's my main source of product support, but we also go through the service desk for more BAU requests and problems. 

Positive

The deployment is straightforward on the Sysdig side, but internal politics always make things difficult. The instructions to deploy are simple. It took less than an hour to deploy it across our entire environment. We have two cloud engineers responsible for deploying and maintaining it. 

Like everything, Sysdig requires maintenance after deployment. I've been in tech for more than a decade, and we're always hoping for a product that we don't need to worry about after deployment. No matter what product it is, there's always maintenance to some degree, but it isn't a headache. 

It comes down to proactive account management. Sysdig contacts us directly when they roll out updates. I'm happy to sit on the call and run through what needs to be done or any concerns. There is obviously some type of maintenance we need to do on the product over time. It isn't too difficult. 

Sysdig is competitive. The quality matches the pricing. Obviously, everyone wants things to be cheaper, but if you're realistic, you acknowledge that quality service comes with a price. Sysdig is the gold standard for Kubernetes, and I wouldn't choose anything else. We live in Kubernetes. Everything is containerized, so that means a lot to us, and we're willing to make an investment.  

Other businesses I know are only getting started with Kubernetes, so cost might hold them back, but Sysdig's rules engine is open source, so you can try some of their core features for free.

In addition to Sysdig, we looked at Aqua Security, Palo Alto, Check Point, and Wiz . Check Point and Palo Alto had complicated interfaces like they had acquired and smashed other products into one interface. One of them was using Sysdigs open-source engine that they had implemented incorrectly, so we decided if others are using Sysdig's engine we might as well go to Sysdig to get the best experience. 

We decided not to go with Wiz  because it was more compliance-focused and didn't have much to offer in the container security space. We're more focused on container security than posture management and compliance. That was more like an add-on for us. Aqua was ridiculously expensive, and we didn't feel like we were getting more value than we would from Sysdig.

I rate Sysdig 8 out of 10. If you're looking for a Kubernetes security platform, Sysdig is the market leader. 

Sysdig Secure has many strong foundational features like compliance and benchmark, security, network access management, and vulnerability management.

Banks and financial institutions cannot use Sysdig Secure because it doesn't sell SaaS-hosted versions for under two hundred working nodes.

I have been using Sysdig Secure for one month.

I have not faced any stability issues with the solution.

I rate Sysdig Secure an eight or nine out of ten for stability.

It is very easy to scale Sysdig Secure. Around ten users are using the solution in our organization.

I rate Sysdig Secure a nine out of ten for scalability.

I have experience with Aqua. Sysdig Secure has features like network monitoring and an open-source threat detection engine, which Aqua does not have.

The solution's deployment is very easy and can be done in ten minutes.

Sysdig Secure has two agents: one for network monitoring and the other for security sites. You can install one agent if you would like to see network monitoring. You can deploy two agents if you would like to see network asset management and the security site.

I compared Sysdig Secure with other solutions like Aqua by opening a demo trial account and examining its features and benefits for one month.

Overall, I rate Sysdig Secure a nine out of ten.

We use the solution for monitoring clusters on the AWS  account. We also do some proofs of concept. They have implemented a way to view the logs.

The solution has connection with cloud providers with the development abilities.

The solution could allow us to see the wireless Internet cluster and select the data inside it.

I have been using Sysdig Secure  as a partner for two months.

There was an error. In the beginning, we couldn't connect with some other AWS  account, we have to open a case to the support.

I rate the solution’s scalability a seven out of ten.

We have a direct contact with the support.

Positive

The initial setup is not easy. We have to connect the AWS account to Sysdig Secure .

Sysdig Secure is a good tool for understanding and monitoring the security cluster.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight-point five out of ten.