"Falco is the de-facto standard for cloud-native threat detection.We are the founders of Falco"

Not many people know that cloud-native security application provider Sysdig is the founder of the open source threat detection platform - Falco. With their commercialised application based on the Falco core, Sysdig is expanding its operations by providing its cloud-native application protection platform via a localised AWS data centre in India. In a conversation with OSFY's Yashasvini Razdan, Sysdig's Gavin Selkirk, Vice President and General Manager of Asia-Pacific and Japan, and Simarpreet Singh, Regional Director, India, got candid about threat detection and what Sysdig brings to India...

Q. What is the need for a cloud-native application security solution for container monitoring?

A: Organisations are grappling with their security requirements from two perspectives: prevention, which is focused on hardening an environment (often referred to as cloud security posture management), and cloud workload protection (container security). The reality is that organisations need both. The industry has coined the term cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) to cover both these core capabilities. Sysdig Secure covers a variety of use cases and spans the software development lifecycle. For instance, in terms of cloud workload protection, organisations deal with cloud detection and response and vulnerability management. Sysdig addresses these complex use cases, with a particular strength in real-time security for containers and Kubernetes.

Q. With so many security threats, how is it possible for a single platform to handle all, and that too in real-time?

A: Cloud attacks happen within minutes, so the cloud security challenge for organisations is twofold: detecting and responding to threats before malicious actors can complete attacks and identifying which vulnerabilities — among the thousands that exist — pose an immediate risk.