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Release Notes: Spot Security

Features and Enhancements​

  • SEC-010 December 17, 2024 In a few clicks, you can onboard cloud accounts to Spot Security for misconfiguration and compliance assessment.
November 2024
October 2024

  • SEC-008 October 14th, 2024 Presets are now called Asset Groups. You can use asset groups to filter findings for specific crown jewels, teams, or production accounts. After you've set up an asset group, you can use it in Billing Engine, Cost Intelligence, and Spot Security. Learn more

  • SEC-007: October 8, 2024 Spot Security supports two new AWS service types: CloudFront and DynamoDB. Learn more.

September 2024

  • SEC-006 September 16, 2024 Spot Security supports two new AWS service types: ECS (Elastic Container Service) and SQS (Simple Queue Service). Learn more.

  • SEC-005 September 16, 2024 You can get email notifications when a set of specific security rules fail. The email notification contains details about the rules and the failing assets. Learn more.

June 2024

  • SEC-004 June 25, 2024 Spot Security supports automatic remediation of misconfigurations. This lets you fix detected risks with a single click. Spot Security lets you view the logs of all previous remediations and roll back if there are issues. In addition, role-based access control (RBAC) lets admins control who can do these remediations. This way, only authorized users can make changes to the security posture. Learn more.

  • SEC-003 June 20, 2024 Spot Security has launched an enhanced version of the IAM Entitlement Analyzer. You can now run simple queries to determine who can perform specific actions on various assets. Additionally, it helps optimize policies by identifying duplicate and excessive privileges. Learn more.

  • SEC-002 June 2, 2024 With Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scanning, you can examine your source code repository for misconfigurations. You can also integrate this with your pull requests (PRs), and Spot Security will comment on any detected misconfigurations on the PR itself. This enables you to take corrective actions before merging the pull request, helps ensure your infrastructure is properly configured, and minimizes the risks in your deployments. Learn more.

May 2024
  • SEC-001 May 22, 2024 Spot Security has released a new Prioritized Vulnerability feature. This feature is designed to streamline vulnerability patching by contextualizing CVEs based on the host they are detected on. Instead of solely relying on severity, this feature assigns a priority ranking from 1 to 100, with lower ranks indicating higher risk. Learn more.