Company
Date Published
Author
Pronoy Chaudhuri
Word count
978
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Datadog has launched Agentless Scanning, a new feature that provides visibility into security risks and vulnerabilities within hosts, containers, and serverless functions without requiring the installation of agents on every host or where agents cannot be installed. This allows comprehensive monitoring of entire cloud accounts in minutes, including misconfigurations, identity risks, and other capabilities provided by Datadog Cloud Security Management (CSM). Agentless Scanning is now generally available for AWS cloud environments and can be deployed across multiple accounts or regions to avoid high networking costs. It provides real-time visibility into security risks and vulnerabilities, and can be used in conjunction with the Datadog Agent to gain additional context through CSM. The feature makes it easy to get started with CSM in minutes, but still recommends installing the Datadog Agent on core assets for complete vulnerability coverage.