Spot by NetApp announces continuous security for cloud

NetApp®, a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company, has announced Spot Security’s general availability. Spot Security, designed for the cloud, provides a solution for continuous assessment and analysis of cloud security posture. Spot Security makes it simple for DevOps and SecOps teams to collaborate on identifying misconfigurations, reducing their potential attack surface, and ensuring compliance. 

“DevOps engineers are constantly asked to deliver solutions to a wide range of challenges that can impact the efficiency and operations of their business,” said Azzedine Benameur, Head of Spot Security for Spot by NetApp. “Spot Security provides DevOps and SecOps a solution that meets the critical requirement to ensure the security of their dynamic cloud environment, further innovating the Spot by NetApp CloudOps suite of solutions that automate and optimize operations in the cloud.”

Spot Security’s agentless technology examines cloud resource relationships to provide clear visibility and prioritized actions, automatically determining each cloud resource’s prospective exposure and surfacing critical security threats based on their potential impact on the organization. These automated actions reduce alert fatigue while also keeping cloud infrastructure secure and operations teams productive.

With Spot Security, organizations can now enjoy:

360° Visibility: Graph visualization of risk maps and service maps provides a clear view into security posture and attack surfaces, network analysis, asset inventory, and cloud user behavior all from the same console.

Prioritized In-Depth Analytics: Continuous monitoring and analysis can instantly identify new risks, abnormal behavior, or new cloud resources, ultimately providing clear objectives for DevOps teams to focus on and steering efforts to real issues, removing false positives, and embedding security into cloud operations.

Automated Detection and Remediation: Detect misconfigurations and anomalies to help with security and compliance risk remediation across multi-cloud infrastructure.

Compliance: Assist businesses in remaining compliant with industry security standards and regulatory mandates.