nCircle Automates Amazon EC2 Security for PureCloud Customers
December 11, 2012
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
Security may not quite be the hot topic it was a couple of years ago, but it’s still top of mind for CIOs and other IT decisionmakers. On Amazon EC2, nCircle is hoping to alleviate some of those concerns with a new free security service designed for its nCircle PureCloud customers.
The new service provides customers with automated cloud security scanning for Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) networks within nCircle PureCloud. The vendor’s PureCloud service is a vulnerability management solution that enables customers to evaluate the security of their cloud deployments on Amazon without the need to do manual identification of each machine instance…
"Securely deploying and managing cloud environments is a new frontier for organizations leveraging the flexibility and economics of elastic cloud computing environments,” said Ed Colonna, vice president of Cloud Solutions at nCircle, in a prepared statement. "PureCloud’s cloud security scanning drastically simplifies the process for security professionals to secure these environments as effectively as their on-premise networks."…
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