Oak9’s technology-agnostic eliminates managing security across multiple tools at once
Oak9 has launched a developer-first infrastructure-as-code (IaC) security, powered by its proprietary Security as Code (SaC). The platform is designed to assess changes to cloud-native infrastructure, applying the right security against SaC blueprints to risk-appropriately secure a cloud application’s architecture.
Oak9’s technology-agnostic eliminates managing security across multiple tools at once.
The company claims to work with integrated development environments (IDEs), code repositories, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and chat ops tools, so developers can use their choice of IaC languages, clouds, multi-clouds, workflows and so on.
Oak9 claims that its platform accelerates the delivery of cloud-native applications while offering security to identify and address any vulnerabilities. The platform is designed to tell users where security vulnerabilities live in an organisation’s cloud, how critical they are, why they exist and how to remediate them. With the tool, organisations have the capability to apply the security fix across their cloud infrastructure.
The implementation and management of IaC within enterprises demand highly qualified engineers and there is a shortage of software infrastructure engineers with IaC expertise.
Raj Datta, Co-founder and CEO of Oak9, said that the IaC security industry is at a crucial period because it’s clear that organisations cannot hire enough security professionals to assure adequate security in their IaC and cloud settings. The industry is seeing budget cuts, he said, and many organisations are struggling to find qualified personnel at a time when the sector actually needs more talent than ever.
