Intrusion detection system across entire OSI stack

An IDS monitors your infrastructure for suspicious or unauthorized activity and notifies your team so they can investigate or address the issue. Cloudaware provides a host-based IDS with FIM, log monitoring, rootkit/malware detection, cloud findings, and optional network signals. All of these are correlated in your CMDB.

A firewall serves as the primary barrier at the edge of a network. It controls traffic based on policies such as IP addresses, protocols, and apps, and it blocks or allows connections in real time. An intrusion detection system (IDS) is a monitoring tool that detects anomalies or malicious activity via signatures and behavior analytics and sends you alerts.

It correlates events across sources (host, cloud, and network) and common attributes, then alerts you when conditions match your policies. You can also automatically create incidents when these conditions are met.

Maintain coverage without blind spots, even as assets change. Correlate to reduce noise and identify real surface risk. Generate response paths that create incidents and, where approved, act automatically. Cloudaware is built around these processes and includes CMDB mapping, multi-level correlation, and incident/workflow hooks.

HIDS inspects endpoints, such as files, logs, processes, and containers. NIDS, on the other hand, inspects traffic on the wire. Many teams implement HIDS everywhere and add NIDS at chokepoints or in regulated segments. Cloudaware is HIDS-first and integrates with Snort for signature, protocol, and anomaly inspection, as well as real-time alerts and IPS.

Deploy at scale using Puppet, Chef, or Ansible. Then, verify coverage against the CMDB baseline to identify any unscanned hosts or missing agents. Finally, quickly close any gaps.

Cloudaware’s Wazuh implementation is designed for cloud environments with a high turnover rate of inventory. Coverage is managed through CMDB and orchestration. This ensures that monitoring and mapping remain up-to-date as assets are added or removed.