CloudPassage has developed products built specifically to provide multiple layers of security for cloud servers. “Servers in the cloud need to be self-protecting and autonomous to survive the higher exposure level to threats and vulnerabilities,” said Srivats Sampath, founder and former CEO of McAfee.com, and an investor in CloudPassage. “Elastic cloud security from CloudPassage is the go-to-security solution for any organization that needs to scale and secure cloud servers.”
“Customers of our on-demand, enterprise-level email and social media marketing solutions have high standards for protecting their data and supporting their compliance needs,” said Tim McQuillen CIO and co-founder of StrongMail. “CloudPassage allows us to clearly communicate in exact technical terms how we secure our environments and deliver compliance verification as frequently as needed.”
The ability to create new servers in the cloud within seconds means IT departments can be faster and more agile, but it creates huge security problems. New copies of servers will duplicate all of the vulnerabilities and exposures that already exist, resulting in an increased attackable surface area on a company’s cloud server farm.
“Other server protection solutions that work in public clouds require painful deployment and management contortions,” said Carson Sweet, co-founder and CEO CloudPassage. “Because dozens of new servers can be created in seconds, through cloning and bursting, vulnerability and firewalling need to be done differently in the cloud; they need to be elastic.”
If there is a compromise on a normal server it can be prevented through configuration changes, software patches and improving firewall policies. In the cloud server model changes are difficult to manage as vulnerability management and firewall configuration has to be managed on each individual cloned or bursted server.
CloudPassage technology is built from the ground up to provide elastic security by automatically securing cloud servers when they burst or are cloned. Once security is set up on one server, all copies of that server created later will automatically adopt those security controls. CloudPassage customers benefit from greatly reduced attack surfaces, lower risk of compromise and improved compliance.
Source: CloudPassage
