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Alert Logic announced the availability of Alert Logic Threat Manager and ActiveWatch for Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS customers using Amazon EC2 interested in an added layer of network protection can cenhance the protection of their networks by subscribing to Alert Logic’s fully managed vulnerability assessment and intrusion detection solution.Customers can subscribe to Alert Logic Threat Manager and Alert Logic ActiveWatch for Amazon EC2 directly from Alert Logic. Threat Manager gives customers the ability to add vulnerability assessment and intrusion detection to their infrastructure running on the AWS platform.
Alert Logic Threat Manager provides subscribers the ability to automatically aggregate and correlate anomalous behavior patterns to identify threats and attacks to their network by leveraging an expert system which includes 7-Factor Threat Scenario Modeling, purpose-built grid computing infrastructure and API-driven provisioning capabilities.
Subscribers may also sign up for ActiveWatch, which provides 24x7 monitoring and expert guidance services from Alert Logic’s Security Operations Center (SOC) staffed by certified security analysts.
“We are pleased to have Alert Logic as an AWS Solution Provider focused on enhancing security for customers,” said Terry Wise, Director of Business Development, Amazon Web Services. “Security is paramount, and with our shared-responsibility security model, customers are able to choose a solution that best meets their applications’ needs, while AWS remains focused on providing secure, on-demand, pay-as-you-go cloud infrastructure.”
Alert Logic’s Security-as-a-Service solutions provide customers four distinct advantages: security tools, an outsourced and managed SaaS delivery model, integrated 24×7 Security Operations Center (SOC) services to monitor and provide expert guidance, and the ability to deploy wherever a customer has IT infrastructure – including the cloud.


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