Palerra comes out of stealth to automate enterprise security

Grazed from TechRepublic. Author: Conner Forest.

The advent and growth of cloud computing impacted almost every aspect of enterprise IT. Perhaps one of the biggest unresolved issues raised in the wake of the cloud revolution is how it has changed the way businesses look at security. On Tuesday, November 4, Palerra came out of stealth with its LORIC product to take a stab at fixing some of the security problems in the cloud stack. Palerra, formerly known as Apprity, was founded by enterprise software veterans Rohit Gupta and Ganesh Kirti with the goal of automating security in the enterprise.

"Holistically, the ability to automate forensics and automate incident response in this dramatic threat landscape that we live in, we think is absolutely critical for the health of the enterprise," Gupta. According to Gupta, security requirements have evolved from being inline in the network with early web apps, to the edge with mobile devices, and are now needed at the source, meaning the source of the data or application you are managing. Palerra focuses on "at the source" security…

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