Director of Technology
After being in tech review, NetApp Spot Security is now available for production workloads in the public cloud. NetApp Spot Security is a software as a service (SaaS) offering that allows companies using cloud-native services to conduct a comprehensive inventory of network assets so they can be analyzed for cybersecurity risk. Spot is a solution for public cloud only, supporting Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Edge, and Google Cloud.
Spot Security is a relatively new addition to the NetApp portfolio that provides agentless public cloud security analysis and support for the assets companies monitor. Agentless analysis gives users options for how to respond to emerging security threats on the network. Spot Security uses automation to deliver continuous, automated security by analyzing, detecting, and prioritizing threats and provides actionable compliance, remediation, and prevention.
When they adopt NetApp Spot Security, organizations benefit from a strengthened public cloud security posture and Zero Trust security, options for detecting and remediating risk, and a 360-degree view of cloud-service configurations, all advantages that generate value quickly.
Instant Visualization of the Public Cloud Environment
NetApp Spot Security gives users complete visibility into their public cloud infrastructure through the lens of resource relationships. With NetApp Spot Security, companies can achieve a 360-degree view of public cloud environments through dashboards that allow them to visualize security posture and attack surface, networking, asset inventories, and cloud user behavior.
Unlike traditional security tools, Spot Security focuses on relationships between public cloud resources to understand the scope of the impact that a compromised asset may have on the entire system. The solution gathers data from public cloud APIs, network traffic, and user activity to provide real-time, continuous monitoring of public cloud infrastructure events, such as access, utilization, and configuration changes.
Spot Security contextualizes resource relationships using 3 different views: logical, network, and policy.
Customizable and Intelligent Remediation
NetApp Spot Security cuts through the noise created by the millions of events that can occur every day. Analyzing and responding to all these events can lead to alert fatigue and allows legitimate threats to escape detection.
Spot Security identifies the most critical vulnerabilities based on potential attack surface and public cloud resource relationship, enabling organizations to prioritize remediation.
As an agentless solution, NetApp Spot Security can support the public cloud through commands, generating a 360-degree view in less than an hour. Agentless analysis of risk gives companies the option of receiving a notification or carrying out automatic remediation through a workflow.
AI-driven security assessment
Spot Security can detect anomalies and drift through a detailed analysis at the level of the organization and account.
Customizable security scope
Spot Security can focus on the relevant security landscape and threats using custom resource subsets and easily defined service maps.
Intelligent prioritization of vulnerability remediation
With Spot, your company can reduce the attack surface through intelligent analysis of the most critical security issues for immediate remediation.
Limit impact of compromised resources
Spot can monitor risk maps of public cloud infrastructure resources and their relationships to each other for access, use, and configuration changes to limit the impact on overall services.
Misconfiguration of cloud services is a major cause of breaches. The IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022 found that 45% of breaches occurred in the cloud. Spot Security can detect the misconfigurations in public cloud resources that often lead to these breaches and either send a notification or immediately remediate the problem.
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