Kyndryl Introduces New Threat Insights Service for AWS

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Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the largest IT infrastructure services provider, has introduced the Kyndryl Threat Insights Managed Service, leveraging Amazon Security Lake. This service centralizes security data from AWS environments, enhancing visibility and facilitating advanced threat detection and response. The initiative builds on Kyndryl's collaboration with AWS for scalable security solutions. The service integrates into Kyndryl Bridge, offering a consolidated view of security risks. It emphasizes cyber resilience by using AI/ML for anomaly detection and threat intelligence, aiding faster and more informed decision-making.

Positive

• Introduced Kyndryl Threat Insights Managed Service leveraging Amazon Security Lake.
• Enhanced visibility and detection of sophisticated cybersecurity threats.
• Integration into Kyndryl Bridge for a consolidated view of security risks.
• Use of AI/ML for improved threat intelligence and anomaly detection.
• Strengthens Kyndryl's Cyber Resiliency portfolio.
• Facilitates faster, intelligence-driven threat detection and response.

Negative

• Potential high costs associated with implementing and maintaining the new service.
• Risk of over-reliance on AWS infrastructure for security operations.
• Possible challenges in integrating the service into existing customer systems.
• The complexity of managing centralized security data may require additional training for IT staff.

New service for Amazon Security Lake to provide businesses with enhanced security operations and management capabilities

Collaboration extends Kyndryl's Cyber Resiliency portfolio

NEW YORK, June 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, today announced the Kyndryl Threat Insights Managed Service is available using Amazon Security Lake. The service automatically centralizes an organization's security data from across their Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments, to provide customers with greater visibility, driving enhanced identification, mitigation, and response of sophisticated cybersecurity risks.

The announcement builds on Kyndryl's successful collaboration with AWS, under which the companies have co-invested and co-innovated to build differentiated, scalable security and resiliency offerings. The Kyndryl Threat Insights Managed Service uses Amazon Security Lake to centralize data and apply analysis, resulting in deep insights not possible with siloed, disparate security technologies. Integrated into Kyndryl Bridge, customers benefit from a consolidated view of security risks that could negatively impact their business.

Through the service, Kyndryl provides customers with options for:

• Enhanced cyber resilience: Using an integrated approach coupling security and resiliency improves a customer's ability to anticipate, protect, withstand, and recover from cyber incidents. Kyndryl Threat Insights Managed Service bolsters an organization's ability to better anticipate and protect against cyber threats and business-critical operational disruptions.
  
  
• Improved visibility and simplicity to mitigate cybersecurity risk: Mitigating risk is a key challenge as digital estates transform and grow in complexity to meet business objectives. Through the service, customers use a single pane view into their security and resiliency risks. This helps accelerate their decision-making capabilities for faster intelligence-driven threat detection and more effective and informed response.
  
  
• Security operations, including artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML)-empowered analysis: Anomaly detection with threat intelligence enhancement, coupled with AI/ML-based analysis, allows the service to assess security data, provide insights and prioritize investigation. This results in actionable security insights that allow customers to benefit from an integrated approach for greater detection and automated response, which simultaneously enhances customers' compliance initiatives.  

"Security leaders understand that cyber incidents are inevitable, and they know it's essential to have sufficient visibility to drive quick response," said Michelle Weston, VP of Security & Resiliency, Kyndryl. "By joining Kyndryl's deep cybersecurity expertise with the benefits of Amazon Security Lake, we can address the urgent need for an integrated approach to security and resilience, empowering our customers to not only anticipate and protect against threats, but also to quickly withstand and recover."

For more information about Kyndryl's collaboration with AWS, please visit:  https://www.kyndryl.com/about-us/alliances/aws.

About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, serving thousands of enterprise customers in more than 60 countries. The company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex, mission-critical information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.

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FAQ

What is the new service Kyndryl introduced for AWS?

Kyndryl introduced the Kyndryl Threat Insights Managed Service, leveraging Amazon Security Lake to enhance security operations and management capabilities.

When was the Kyndryl Threat Insights Managed Service announced?

The service was announced on June 5, 2024.

How does the Kyndryl Threat Insights Managed Service enhance cybersecurity?

The service centralizes security data from AWS environments, using AI/ML for advanced threat detection, resulting in greater visibility and faster response to cybersecurity risks.

What benefits does the Kyndryl Threat Insights Managed Service provide?

It offers enhanced cyber resilience, improved visibility to mitigate risks, and AI/ML-powered analysis for better threat detection and response.

How does the Kyndryl Threat Insights Managed Service integrate with existing systems?

The service integrates into Kyndryl Bridge, providing a consolidated view of security risks, which can improve decision-making and threat response.

What role does AI/ML play in the Kyndryl Threat Insights Managed Service?

AI/ML is used for anomaly detection and threat intelligence analysis, enabling the service to provide actionable security insights and enhance compliance initiatives.