Valtix vs. AWS Network Security
DON’T SETTLE FOR
GOOD ENOUGH
IN AWS
When it comes to network security, cloud-specific doesn’t mean simple, pre-integrated, or advanced. AWS network security (AWS WAF, AWS Firewall, Security Groups, etc.) provides a single-cloud solution that requires significant integration work and doesn’t meet enterprise security needs.
AWS Firewall Might Check the Box
But Is Incomplete
BASIC BUILDING BLOCKS ONLY
AWS provides a number of basic building blocks including Security Groups, Web Application Firewall, and AWS Network Firewall. None are best of breed, were meant to check boxes, and are often misused (e.g. Security Groups).
Bottom Line Impact:
Elevated Security Risk
HIDDEN COSTS
When it comes to network security, AWS requires multiple services to meet enterprise needs. To integrate these services as a single chain means up-front effort and ongoing maintenance that falls completely on the enterprise.
Bottom Line Impact:
Wasted Time and Money
SINGLE CLOUD
With 90%+ of enterprises making the move to multi-cloud, building a security stack just for AWS makes little sense. Invest strategically in platforms that enable your organization’s journey to diversify supplier risk and serve the needs of the business.
Bottom Line Impact:
Reduced Business Agility
AWS Network Security Fails to Meet Enterprise Needs
Need
AWS Network Security
Valtix
Need:
Operational Simplicity
AWS Network Security:
Requires stitching together multiple services and additional steps to get basic network security working for all traffic flows. For example, AWS Network Firewall does not provide built-in decryption for inspecting encrypted flows.
Valtix:
Valtix provides a pre-integrated solution for cloud network security. With Valtix, cloud security teams can enable advanced security in AWS (or multi-cloud) in minutes.
Need:
Defense in Depth
AWS Network Security:
Each security service requires a different policy to manage, making it challenging to secure. Defense in depth means integrating multiple AWS services with additional third party vendors.
Valtix:
Valtix provides a single policy and dashboard to enable defense in depth through ingress, egress, and east-west protections.
Need:
Prevent Exfiltration
AWS Network Security:
AWS provides no DLP service to alert or block sensitive data exfiltration. AWS egress security isn’t enabled with category-based FQDN or URL filters for blocking command and control (C2) connections, which means you’re limited to difficult to operationalize custom lists.
Valtix:
Valtix prevents exfiltration with comprehensive egress security, including category-based filtering and DLP with multiple pre-configured patterns (i.e., credit card numbers, routing numbers, etc.).
Need:
Multi-Cloud
AWS Network Security:
AWS isn’t incentivized to make their security services best-in-class for multi-cloud, which means your cloud security will remain fragmented if you are one of the many organizations who require multi-cloud.
Valtix:
Valtix provides consistent security across the four major clouds of AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
Need:
Incident Response
AWS Network Security:
AWS doesn’t provide granular traffic packet captures (PCAPs). Incident responders can only enable encrypted traffic mirroring retroactively, which is likely too late to be useful.
Valtix:
Valtix delivers live session and attack level PCAPs into your S3 bucket with the ability to proactively enable captures during a detected attack for rich incident response telemetry.