Container Threat Detection and Response for AWS Fargate with Sysdig

This article discusses how to achieve real-time visibility and threat detection for AWS Fargate workloads using Sysdig Secure, a cloud-native application protection platform.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Why serverless containers need additional security beyond what AWS provides
• How Sysdig's Falco open-source tool uses syscall instrumentation to detect threats for AWS Fargate containers
• The additional capabilities Sysdig Secure provides beyond Falco, including SaaS-based security, out-of-the-box policies, automatic remediation, forensics, and visualizations
• Details on how Sysdig Secure instruments AWS Fargate with a serverless workload agent and orchestrator agent
• An example use case of detecting and responding to the Log4Shell vulnerability using Sysdig Secure
• Conclusion highlighting the importance of quickly identifying and responding to container threats