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Aporeto Achieves SOC2 Type 1 ComplianceAporeto, a leader in Zero Trust Cloud Security, announced today that the company has achieved SOC2 Type 1 compliance certification, a standard defined by the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA). The audit is designed to help organizations that provide services to other entities build trust and confidence in the service performed, and controls related to the services through a report by an independent CPA. Aporeto (News - Alert) received the certification in the Security and Availability practice. "We are proving once more that we are exceeding industry standards and making sure that our customers can trust us when it comes to the safety of their data. With this announcement, we are the only zero trust cloud security solution with a SaaS (News - Alert) offering that is SOC2 Type 1 compliant," said Dimitri Stiliadis, CTO and co-founder of Aporeto. "As more eterprises are adopting and consuming SaaS, Aporeto now has the opportunity to be the service of choice for its customers' most critical applications and meet their strict performance, reliability, and security requirements." The Aporeto Zero Trust Cloud Security solution supports multiple use cases including cloud security, Kubernetes security, and secure access for any workload, with any infrastructure, on any cloud. Aporeto works with VMs or containers and collects application-specific information to establish a unique application identity for each workload, across heterogeneous infrastructures. The Aporeto SaaS-based enforcer platform communicates with each Aporeto agent to automatically deliver consistent policy for discreet workloads, across multiple, disparate security zones and environments. Delivery and enforcement of security policy is automated, while ensuring secure access through a unique approach to Cloud PAM, paired with user authentication from the identity provider (IdP) of choice selected by the customer. About Aporeto Aporeto, a leader in Zero Trust Cloud Security, provides comprehensive network security through microsegmentation and secure access to infrastructure and resources by using application identity rather than IP addresses. Aporeto protects against attacks and enables complete visualization, simplified proof of compliance, centralized policy management, and accelerated app migration across all workloads including containers, Kubernetes, serverless, service mesh and VM environments. Aporeto future-proofs hybrid cloud infrastructures and delivers stronger cloud security, agility to accelerate digital transformation, and better ROI for any infrastructure at scale. Learn more at www.aporeto.com or request a free trial at https://www.aporeto.com/trial/. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191101005187/en/ |
