Ermetic Automates Discovery and Remediation of Security Vulnerabilities in Infrastructure as Code

Cloud Native Application Protection Platform provides full-lifecycle security from development to runtime

BOSTON & TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ermetic, the cloud infrastructure security company, today announced new capabilities that enable customers to detect, prevent and remediate security risks in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments both pre- and post-deployment. As part of Ermetic’s comprehensive Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), IaC scanning enables organizations to discover and fix misconfigurations, compliance violations and risky or excessive privileges at runtime by generating code snippets that can be integrated with CI/CD workflows.

IaC has revolutionized cloud infrastructure provisioning with tools that allow developers to generate reusable code that automates initial set-up/configuration, deployment and ongoing maintenance of servers, networking, software and applications. While IaC provides major scalability advancements in how organizations deploy cloud infrastructure, it can inadvertently introduce security risks stemming from human error and/or security policy and best practices violations.

Managing security for IaC also poses unique challenges since the complexity of detecting misconfigurations dramatically increases in multicloud environments. Meanwhile, performing manual reviews of IaC configurations is expensive, error-prone and time-consuming for large scale projects. Finally, security and DevOps teams often rely on different tools which creates visibility gaps and blindspots.

“It’s critical to eliminate security flaws as early as possible - ideally, before deployment. But finding and fixing misconfigurations in Infrastructure as Code is extremely complicated and time consuming,” said Sivan Krigsman, Chief Product Officer at Ermetic. “Ermetic enables security and DevOps to check for and detect security errors at every stage of the development cycle and provides clear information on how to fix them.”

End-to-End IaC Security
To automate the management of security across the full lifecycle of IaC environments, the Ermetic CNAPP provides the following capabilities:

Misconfiguration & Compliance Violations
Ermetic enables developers to scan and detect misconfigurations and other risks in IaC to harden cloud infrastructure environments as part of the CI/CD pipeline. By embedding comprehensive cloud security checks and surfacing findings directly in native development tools including Jenkins, BitBucket, CircleCI, GitHub and GitLab, developers can deliver code efficiently and securely.

Shift Security Left
Ermetic streamlines security throughout the software development lifecycle by embedding security into DevOps workflow tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation. By combining context and risk prioritization, developers can quickly evaluate critical security and compliance risk against industry standard benchmarks or custom policies and course correct as needed.

Built-In Remediation
Ermetic integrates fixes into existing workflows via guided remediation-as-code, auto-assigns alerts delivered through ticketing systems including Jira and ServiceNow. It also supports source code repositories for adding comments and suggested fixes to pull requests.

Compliance Benchmarks
With its agentless approach, the Ermetic platform allows teams to maintain automated compliance against industry standard regulations and benchmarks like PCI-DSS, CIS Benchmarks, SOC 2, PSD2, GDPR, NIST, HIPAA, and more, as well as custom frameworks. Ermetic enables audit and compliance teams to detect gaps in policy guardrails, minimizing the risk of compliance failures.

Full Lifecycle Security
The Ermetic CNAPP provides continuous discovery across infrastructure, workloads, data and applications, from development to deployment, surfacing, visualizing and prioritizing security and compliance risks at scale, and providing actionable remediation integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

Availability
The new IaC security capabilities are available immediately in the Ermetic CNAPP from Ermetic and its business partners worldwide.

About Ermetic
Ermetic reveals and prioritizes security gaps in AWS, Azure and GCP and enables organizations to remediate them immediately. The Ermetic cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) uses an identity-first approach to automate complex cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) and cloud security posture management (CSPM) operations. It unifies full asset discovery, deep risk analysis, runtime threat detection and compliance reporting, combined with pinpoint visualization and step-by-step guidance. The company is led by proven technology entrepreneurs whose previous companies have been acquired by Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks and others. Ermetic has received funding from Accel, Forgepoint, Glilot Capital Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Qumra Capital and Target Global. Visit us at https://ermetic.com/ and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.