Enhanced Visibility, Intrusion Detection and Enforcement Features Protect Critical Assets in Public, Private Clouds and Virtual Data Centers
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 4, 2014) - CloudPassage today announced the immediate availability of the latest release of Halo®, the only software-defined security platform purpose-built for cloud and virtualized infrastructure. The new capabilities offered in the release make it faster, easier and more effective for Global 2000 companies to detect and react to security vulnerabilities in these environments.
"CloudPassage Halo is a powerful weapon in the security arsenal of any enterprise," stated Nate Lindstrom, vice president of technology operations for OneLogin. "As business critical data and applications move into virtualized data centers and the cloud, it's become clear that perimeter-based security models simply won't work. CloudPassage solves these issues with a flexible, elastic software-defined security platform that delivers the abstraction, automation and orchestration required with modern infrastructure."
For decades, IT security has been built around models that assume availability of fixed perimeters, physical hardware and close proximity of data. Cloud environments and virtualized data centers disrupt these assumptions dramatically. The dynamic, automated and abstracted nature of these environments has made it extremely difficult for businesses to detect and respond quickly to critical security vulnerabilities, as well as remain compliant with ever-increasing regulations.
"Disruptive changes are occurring in corporate IT environments as large enterprises rapidly accelerate adoption of public and private cloud solutions," said Carson Sweet, a 22-year veteran of the security industry and CEO of CloudPassage. "As a result, new security strategies and solutions are urgently needed."
As large enterprises accelerate cloud adoption, there is a clear demand for solutions that address the dynamic security and compliance needs across private and multi-cloud environments. Gartner has identified software-defined security as a key component of the modern, software-defined data center in a report (G00262841) issued September 10, 2014.
The latest release of Halo solves these challenges and includes dozens of new features and enhancements designed to bring greater risk, compliance and security visibility. The release includes:
"The benefits are so compelling that most businesses are rapidly expanding their usage of cloud infrastructure. Of course, with big change comes big disruption," said Amrit Williams, chief technology officer at CloudPassage. "Because the IT environment has been significantly disrupted, most enterprises are struggling with even basic risk and compliance visibility. CloudPassage Halo Audit Mode is designed to address this gap, providing low-friction oversight into cloud infrastructure environments."
About CloudPassage
CloudPassage is the leader in software-defined security (SDSec) with a mission of addressing two top inhibitors to cloud infrastructure adoption -- security and compliance. The patented, award-winning CloudPassage Halo platform is the industry's only software-defined security solution purpose-built to handle the dynamic nature of public, private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments, in addition to traditional hardware and virtualized data centers. Halo operates seamlessly across these environments to automate and orchestrate a broad set of critical security and compliance controls. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, CloudPassage is backed by Benchmark Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, Tenaya Capital, Shasta Ventures, Musea Ventures and other leading investors.
CloudPassage® and Halo® are registered trademarks of CloudPassage, Inc.
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