User Session Monitoring and Recording for Amazon WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0
Monitor user activity. Detect anomalies. Respond to incidents. ALL-IN-ONE
Amazon WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0 provide powerful desktop virtualization services but don’t offer any built-in tools for managing insider risks.
To secure your corporate data and resources from malicious or negligent insiders, leverage the capabilities of Syteca — a robust insider risk management solution. Syteca will help you monitor user activity and record user sessions on cloud desktops provided by Amazon WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0.
Screenshots of Syteca’s AWS WorkSpaces monitoring tool
Manage insider threats within AWS virtual endpoints
Syteca is an all-in-one insider risk management platform. It includes flexible session recording, real-time detection of unusual user behavior, sophisticated alerting and incident response systems, and more. Taken together, these capabilities will help you deter, detect, and disrupt insider threats.
1. Deter
Secure your sensitive data and corporate resources by granularly managing access rights of regular and privileged users. You will be able to grant permissions to individual users or groups of users upon request and limit the time for which access is granted.
Syteca helps you secure user authentication and authorization procedures, automate your password management, and differentiate user activity behind shared accounts. The built-in two-factor authentication (2FA) tool allows you to verify user identities and minimize the risk of account compromise.
2. Detect
Ensure visibility into your cloud resources by establishing proper user activity monitoring. Syteca’s AWS WorkSpaces monitoring functionality doesn’t disturb your employees or contractors but allows you to view user sessions in real time and watch the recordings later. To ensure user privacy, Syteca offers robust data anonymization options.
Syteca’s flexible rule-based alert system instantly notifies you when a user violates cybersecurity policies. The AI-powered user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) module in Syteca automatically analyzes user behavior and detects early indicators of suspicious activity on your endpoints, such as login attempts outside working hours. Thus, your security officers can immediately check suspicious user activity and take action if needed.
3. Disrupt
Respond to potential security threats immediately. With actionable insights from Syteca, your security officers can assess a suspicious event in real time and prevent a cybersecurity incident from happening. Security officers can block users and processes manually or automate the incident response.
Benefit from in-session and cross-session search options along with fast-forward replays to efficiently audit and investigate security events. You can also leverage a set of customizable user activity reports and export user sessions in an immutable format for forensic investigation.
Amazon WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0 for Windows
Syteca enables you to record and manage remote sessions on Windows 7, Windows 10, and Windows 11 cloud desktops in real time. These cloud desktops are powered by Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2016, and Windows Server 2019, so you can also monitor any activity on the servers themselves.
Amazon AppStream 2.0 monitoring capabilities of Syteca allow you to monitor the use of non-persistent Windows desktops and applications accessed via Amazon AppStream 2.0 from any desktop.
Amazon WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0 for Linux
Syteca can monitor user activity on cloud-based desktops provided by Amazon Linux WorkSpaces. Augment your hardware capacity with cloud desktops built on Amazon Linux 2 LTS and track and audit your employees’ activity. With Syteca, you can also monitor Amazon AppStream 2.0 services for Linux virtual desktops.
Syteca provides you with a lot of other quality-of-life features to monitor Amazon WorkSpaces. Check out the full list of our capabilities on Supported Platforms page.
Deployment scheme
Why choose Syteca for monitoring Amazon WorkSpaces?
Fast and easy deployment
Deploy Syteca fast without performing complex configurations and infrastructure changes. Implementation is simple and straightforward. If any questions arise, Syteca support is at your service.
Floating licensing
Benefit from a low total cost of ownership thanks to the opportunity to reassign licences between endpoints in just a couple of clicks. To make things even easier, you can automate the distribution of purchased licenses between active virtual endpoints.
Cybersecurity compliance
Make sure your organization complies with cybersecurity requirements when using Amazon WorkSpaces. Syteca helps you comply with NIST SP 800-53, the GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and other standards, laws, and regulations.
Enterprise-ready
Syteca works flawlessly for enterprises as well as for small and midsize businesses. Leverage the platform’s scalability opportunities for large-scale environments. Syteca ensures high availability, disaster recovery, and integration with popular SIEM and ticketing systems.
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FAQ
An AWS security monitoring and session recording tool allows organizations to overview user activity within their AWS cloud environments. Syteca is an insider risk management platform that allows for monitoring and recording of user activity within AWS WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0 cloud environments as well as other types of physical and virtual desktops.
Amazon WorkSpaces do not provide built-in functionality to monitor user activity on the virtual desktops. However, there are external solutions like Syteca that you can integrate into your Amazon WorkSpaces environment. Syteca’s monitoring solution for Amazon WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0 provides comprehensive user activity tracking, session recording, access management, and incident response capabilities.
Using AWS screen recording and security monitoring tools is essential to ensure the security and integrity of your AWS environment. These tools provide real-time visibility into user activity, allowing you to identify and respond to potential security incidents. AWS security monitoring tools can also help your organization meet compliance requirements by providing audit trails, logs, and reports that demonstrate adherence to security standards and regulations. Syteca can help you with all of the above and more.
Yes, as long as you comply with applicable data privacy laws and regulations. It’s crucial to obtain consent from your users and inform them about monitoring and its purpose. You can seek guidance from legal experts and thoroughly review the applicable requirements when implementing user activity monitoring solutions in your region. To ensure the privacy of monitored data, Syteca has built-in data anonymization capabilities.
In addition to real-time user activity monitoring, Syteca provides robust privileged access management, incident response, reporting, and auditing capabilities. Combined, these Syteca features can help you effectively detect and prevent insider-related threats on your Amazon WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0 virtual endpoints. Syteca is easy to deploy and compatible with companies of any size and complexity.
Yes. You can use Syteca as a monitoring tool for Amazon WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0 virtual environments to meet data security and privacy compliance requirements. Syteca’s extensive feature set can help you comply with many cybersecurity standards, laws, and regulations: PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, SOX, FISMA, GLBA, SWIFT CSP, and more.
By implementing Syteca on your Amazon WorkSpaces virtual desktops, you’ll be able to not only monitor user activity but also configure and receive real-time alerts on suspicious user activity and other events. Syteca’s customizable rule-based system allows you to define the events you want to receive notifications on and set up automatic system responses to security threats.
Specialized monitoring solutions like Syteca allow you to gain valuable insights into the security of your AWS WorkSpaces environment by generating reports on user activity. Syteca offers 20+ reports to give detailed information on user productivity, application usage, internet activity, security alerts, and more.
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