Security Posture Management Enters the Cloud

When eGestalt of Santa Clara, CA, announced in November they were launching a cloud-based security and compliance solution, it set the stage to change the way enterprise businesses could cope with complex compliance and security issues.
The solution, powered by Rapid7 scanning technology, was to deliver a “pure” cloud-based IT security monitoring and compliance management product that worked in real time without requiring any hardware, “a first of its kind solution,” say the vendors.
Called Aegify, the technology delivers Security Posture Management (SPM), which first measures the security status of all assets within a network, then delivers a report that can be used to remediate problems, strengthen security, and create and manage compliance policies. It leverages the compliance and security engine of eGestalt’s SecureGRC (governance, risk management and compliance) product with Rapid7’s Nexpose vulnerability management technology.

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