Heimdall · Cloud Module
Cloud Security
Heimdall's cloud module monitors AWS, GCP, and Azure — detecting misconfigurations, config drift, and runtime threats within 4 minutes of occurrence, across all three providers from a single pane.
How Heimdall Monitors Cloud Environments
Cloud infrastructure changes continuously — IAM policies are modified, S3 buckets are misconfigured, security groups are relaxed, new resources are provisioned without security review. Heimdall's cloud module ingests API events, resource configuration states, and CloudTrail-equivalent audit logs from AWS, GCP, and Azure in real time, running 400+ configuration checks against known-good baselines and CIS Benchmarks.
When drift is detected — a public S3 bucket, an overly permissive IAM role, an unencrypted RDS instance — Heimdall raises a finding within 4 minutes, classifies the severity, and maps it to the compliance frameworks it violates.
Multi-Cloud Configuration Monitoring
- AWS, GCP, Azure: All three major providers monitored from a unified Heimdall dashboard — no separate consoles, no stitching together alerts.
- 400+ config checks: Automated checks cover IAM, storage, networking, compute, encryption, and logging configurations across all providers.
- 4-minute detection: Average time from config drift event to Heimdall alert — faster than the provider's own native alerting in most cases.
Runtime Threat Detection
- Container and serverless coverage: Heimdall monitors workload runtime behavior in EKS, GKE, AKS, Lambda, and Cloud Functions — detecting anomalous execution patterns and lateral movement.
- Identity-based threat detection: API calls from unusual locations, credential use outside business hours, and role assumption chains that indicate privilege escalation are all flagged automatically.
- Data exfiltration detection: Unusual data access patterns, bulk export events, and cross-account data transfers trigger immediate alerts.
Compliance Posture Tracking
- CIS Benchmark alignment: Continuous scoring against CIS AWS, CIS GCP, and CIS Azure Foundations Benchmarks — with per-control pass/fail status.
- SOC 2 and PCI DSS mapping: Config check results automatically mapped to SOC 2 Common Criteria and PCI DSS requirements for audit evidence.
- Remediation guidance: Every finding includes the exact API call or console action needed to resolve the issue — no manual research required.
Integration with Heimdall SOC
Cloud security findings feed directly into Heimdall's main event pipeline. A misconfigured security group that is actively being exploited will correlate with network detection signals and identity anomalies to produce a single, high-fidelity incident — rather than three separate alerts from three separate tools.
