Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In recent years, security professionals have seen a rise in unauthorized access over devices, the spread of malware, and system corruption. And while finding the root cause, most of the answers concluded with downloading and installing malicious files. When anyone downloads an infected file and doesn’t check its authenticity, the possibility of getting attacked increases. Whether it’s a personal system or an organizational device, you must check the file.

A couple months ago, we received a request from one of our enterprise financial clients looking to build their internal data lake capabilities. The client wanted to know more about security best practices related to the AWS data lake management tool, AWS Lake Formation, and asked our team for help. One of our principal security consultants specializing in cloud got to work, preparing an overview of critical security considerations when architecting a data lake system.

Scanning for vulnerabilities is a best practice and a must-have step in your application lifecycle to prevent security attacks. It is also important where this step is performed, but why? Let’s dig into the details of vulnerability scanning with Sysdig.