CloudPassage Launches New Release of Halo Agile Security Platform

Improved Visibility and Filtering for Simplified Workload Security Management


SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - November 29, 2016) - CloudPassage announced today a new release of CloudPassage Halo, the company's award-winning agile security platform. The update includes several enhancements including a new filtering feature in the portal user interface, visual and functional improvements to the Traffic Discovery feature (offering improved insight into firewall connections and traffic) and improved server lifecycle management.

"CloudPassage continues to focus on developing and delivering innovative automated security and compliance solutions to help companies embrace the power of agile computing," said Ram Krishnan, Chief Product Officer, CloudPassage. "In fact, our SaaS-based platform was purpose-built to handle the dynamic nature of the modern IT infrastructure, and operates seamlessly across any environment to provide a broad range of controls -- at speed and scale -- to enable secure innovation and deployment. This newest release delivers numerous capabilities that enhance the security team's visibility and eases management."

Improved filtering for display views makes it easier to organize issues, scans, servers, alerts, policies and connections. Security managers can now interactively create new filters by clicking the filter box and selecting the attributes and values that apply to the dataset being viewed. Wherever applicable, drop-downs and hints will automatically appear to help build the filter quickly.

Visual and functional improvements to traffic discovery include a dynamic graph for viewing and drilling into large numbers of connections; an added "direction" column to show connection behavior; and a new quick filter in the visualization view to easily see inbound or outbound firewall connections.

Server Lifecycle Management

This release has implemented the ability to automatically retire deactivated servers as a user's workloads grow more numerous (and possibly transitory). This helps reduce the clutter in the portal. Existing customers will need to choose a timeframe (from hours to days) for when the deactivated servers should be retired.

Additional enhancements in this new version of Halo are detailed in CloudPassage's publicly listed release notes.

About CloudPassage

CloudPassage® Halo® is the world's leading agile security platform that provides instant visibility and continuous protection for servers in any combination of data centers, private clouds and public clouds. The Halo platform is delivered as a service, so it deploys in minutes and scales on-demand. Halo uses minimal system resources; so layered security can be deployed where it counts, right at every workload -- servers, instances and containers. CloudPassage was recently awarded three patents that extend the scope of its original, agent-based, agile security model, making it the first company to obtain a U.S. patent for universal cloud infrastructure security. Leading enterprises like Citrix, Salesforce.com and Adobe use CloudPassage today to enhance their security and compliance posture, while at the same time enabling business agility. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, CloudPassage is backed by Benchmark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Tenaya Capital, Shasta Ventures, Musea Ventures and other leading investors.

For more information, visit www.cloudpassage.com.

CloudPassage® and Halo® are registered trademarks of CloudPassage, Inc.

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