The Top 5 Cloud Architecture Risk Analysis Tools

AWS Well-Architected is a cloud architecture resource that helps architects construct secure, efficient, and reliable infrastructure for diverse applications and workloads. The AWS Well-Architected Tool is a feature in the AWS Management Console for evaluating workloads, highlighting high-risk issues, and recording improvements. AWS also draws on a network of hundreds of members in the AWS Well-Architected Partner Program, offering customers assistance in assessment and review of their applications.

The AWS Well-Architected Framework guides users in designing and implementing workloads in the cloud through key concepts, design principles, and architectural best practices. It emphasizes the need for diligence in running and monitoring systems, protecting information and systems, ensuring workload functionality, efficient allocation of resources, avoiding unnecessary costs, and minimizing environmental impacts.

In addition to this, relevance is given to particular industry and the technology domains through AWS Well-Architected Lenses. These support architects in gaining further insights into fields such as machine learning, data analytics, IoT, and SAP. These lenses are used alongside the AWS Well-Architected Framework for comprehensive workload evaluations.

CrowdStrike Falcon Pro is an advanced cybersecurity solution designed to bolster an organization’s cloud security measures. The tool focuses on providing comprehensive cloud security assessments that helps identify potential security weaknesses and will suggest robust prevention methods. The assessment  include access control and management, network security, incident management, storage security, platform services security, and workload security.

Alongside the fundamental security assessment, CrowdStrike Falcon Pro supports automated investigations uniting malware analysis, threat intelligence, and malware search in a single solution. This equips organizations with the necessary means to identify, investigate, and preemptively block similar cyberattacks in the future.

The product also focuses on Indicators of Compromise (IOCs). It enables organizations to establish detailed connections between IOCs and potential adversaries. With CrowdStrike’s real-time global IOC feed, organizations can reinforce their defenses. The platform is equipped to integrate seamlessly with existing security solutions thanks to pre-built APIs.

CrowdStrike Falcon Pro offers extended endpoint integration without any additional deployment or administration requirements. It auto-forwards all quarantined files for immediate investigation. This solution also brings together CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence and CrowdStrike Falcon OverWatch threat hunting team into the Counter Adversary Operations unit, with the aim of preventing breaches and raising the adversaries’ cost of operations.

Google Cloud Risk Protection Program includes the Risk Manager tool to simplify and enhance cybersecurity for organizations. The tool calculates a detailed view of the company’s technological risk position, aiding in risk reduction decision-making to protect the company. It amalgamates data from multiple sources to give a comprehensive understanding of organizational risk and integrates easily with other Google Cloud tools like Security Command Center for swift risk mediation.

Use of the Risk Manager tool gives users an opportunity to procure tailor-made cyber insurance for Google Cloud customers. It accomplishes this by enabling the generation and sharing of reports with select insurance partners, with the potential to reduce insurance premiums.

The platform offers an organized view of organization-wide risk, with reports that are aligned to the CIS Google Cloud Computing Foundations Benchmark v1.0.0. Users even have the advantage of scheduling these reports to be created automatically.

Users maintain complete control over their data, and it is only shared with Google Cloud’s insurance partners when users decide. If and when the insurance partners are given this data, then propose a quote for a cyber insurance policy. The program, in association with Munich Re, offers Cloud Protection +, an exclusive cyber insurance policy for Google Cloud users, developed to deal with increasing data privacy threats in the rising domain of cloud computing.

Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager has a primary focus on enabling businesses to effectively maintain compliance across their multi-cloud environments. The platform keeps up-to-date guidance on regulatory, product, or control mapping changes, thus providing support for businesses in aligning with the latest industry standards.

Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager offers comprehensive compliance management capabilities which include ease of onboarding, workflow management, control implementation, and cataloging of evidence. The product offers scalable assessments by providing more than 320 customizable regulatory assessment templates for meeting multicloud compliance requirements. The template selection extends to both Microsoft 365 and services that are not provided by Microsoft.

Purview Compliance Manager further aids in minimizing compliance risks through built-in components such as compliance score, control mapping, versioning, and continuous control assessments. The compliance score provides a numeric measure of compliance, thereby helping prioritize actions based on risk.

The product scan your system settings continuously, delivering continuous status updates and automatic credit results for technical controls. It allows for common control mapping, thereby eliminating the need to update the same control multiple times.

Additionally, Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager supports more than 360 regulatory templates for quickly creating assessments, providing clear recommended guidance to align with data protection regulations and standards. This facilitates centralizing compliance activities and making improvements as necessary.

Synopsys is a software company that aids businesses transitioning to the cloud, allowing them to achieve agility, adopt a faster market approach, and reduced expenses, without compromising security. It offers a Cloud Architectural Risk Analysis program; this starts with a blueprint for your cloud security roadmap which identifies optimum strategies, capabilities, and applications to reinforce an efficient cloud application security system.

The company conducts assessments of cloud architecture risks, examining potential attack trajectories to determine where cloud security controls may fall short. Synopsys provides expert recommendations on how to enhance these controls and creates secure reference implementations with baseline security controls. This approach allows businesses to build and deploy cloud applications securely as they transition to the cloud. Additional security measures include software composition analysis and dynamic analysis to ensure the security of applications deployed on the cloud.

Synopsys helps improve your cloud security posture by auditing your cloud environment configuration and security controls. It reviews attack surfaces to spot weaknesses in the cloud infrastructure. The service also evaluates your Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP). It provides a comprehensive health check, analyzing your current CSPM deployment covering configurations, policies, controls, and integrations.

Finally, Synopsys offers software composition analysis to keep risky components out of your cloud application development. This tool, working with a policy-driven approach, identifies, tracks, and manages open-source and third-party components used to build cloud applications, containers, and configuration files, reducing risk during development and post-deployment.