NetApp Inc. today announced the general availability of Spot Security, a cloud cybersecurity service designed to deliver continuous assessment and analysis of cloud security posture.

Announced back in October, Spot Security enables DevOps and SecOps teams to collaborate to identify misconfigurations, reduce their potential attack surface and ensure compliance. Using agentless technology, the service analyzes cloud resource relationships to provide clear visibility and prioritized actions. It automatically determines the exposure of each cloud resource and surfaces the most critical security threats based on their potential impact on the organization.

In the backend, Spot Security maps out all the components of a cloud environment and identifies resources with insecure configuration settings that hackers could potentially use to launch cyberattacks. It also detects anomalous user behavior that suggests a breach may have occurred.

Spot Security offers 360-degree visibility, delivering a clear view into security posture and attack surfaces, network analysis, asset inventory and cloud user behavior. The results are provided in a single console via graph visualization of risk maps and service maps.

Prioritized in-depth analytics in Spot Security uncovers new risks, abnormal behavior, or new cloud resources instantly. Continuous monitoring and analysis provide clear objectives for DevOps teams to focus on and steer efforts to real issues, removing false positives and embedding security into cloud operations.

Automated detection and remediation in Spot Security efficiently supports remediation of security and compliance risks across multi-cloud infrastructure when issues are found. The service also offers compliance support to industry security standards and regulatory mandates, enabling businesses to stay compliant.

“DevOps engineers are constantly asked to deliver solutions to a wide range of challenges that can impact the efficiency and operations of their business,” Azzedine Benameur, head of Spot Security for Spot by NetApp, said in a statement. “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.”

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