Cloud security company Lacework Inc. today announced the release of a series of new platform capabilities that have been designed to save time for security stakeholders, such as chief information security officers and frontline security analysts.

The new capabilities include a new security graph and resource explorer called Lacework Explorer, new dashboards and additional investments in Lacework composite alerts. The additions to the platform are focused on giving more time back to security teams as they take on attackers.

Lacework claims that the No. 1 adversary enterprises face in securing their cloud environments is time. The company argues that it takes too long to detect and contain a breach and that it takes too long to remediate critical vulnerabilities, allowing bad actors to exfiltrate valuable data too quickly for security teams to achieve desired outcomes. Each of the new platform capabilities is focused on making reaction times quicker.

The new Lacework Explorer combines a next-generation security graph and resource explorer to quickly find the assets a security professional wants to assess and dynamically shows the complex relationships between them. The dashboards give security leaders insights into how their security program is tracking against its overall goals, with granular visibility to assess progress at the individual business, team, or functional levels within their organizations.

New Lacework Context Panels provide more clarity to threat investigation teams so they can take swift action. Context Panels transform the way security professionals interact with alerts by allowing them to view related entities and content without losing sight of the alert’s context.

The company says the panels significantly reduce investigation times and improve the fidelity of threat detection by allowing teams to focus on what matters — safeguarding their organizations from increasingly sophisticated threats.

Lacework Composite Alerts, a service that detects hard-to-uncover malicious activity by automatically tying together low-severity signals to define a more specific alert condition, have also been upgraded, with support for Kubernetes added. The extension to Kubernetes will allow Lacework customers to quicky identify active threats within their Kubernetes environments.

Merritt Baer, field chief information security officer of Lacework, spoke with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media Inc.’s livestream studio, in November, when she discussed how artificial intelligence can be used to improve security insights.

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