IaC Security Leader oak9 Announces First-of-its-Kind Partnership with HITRUST Alliance
Summary
oak9, developer-first IaC security leader, has formed a first-of-its-kind strategic partnership with the HITRUST Alliance to make cloud native compliance easier for healthcare and HealthTech organizations. oak9 makes it easy for developers to incorporate comprehensive compliance frameworks like HITRUST, while also giving resource-constrained security teams the ability to scale across cloud applications. “This partnership with oak9 helps our customers easily incorporate HITRUST controls early in the development lifecycle and use automation to ensure that the design meets the organization’s security and compliance objectives. oak9 can help organizations significantly reduce the effort it takes for them to achieve HITRUST compliance – and remain continuously compliant.” The HITRUST partnership announcement comes shortly after oak9 became a formal member of OWASP, the Open Web Application Security Project – a nonprofit standards organization and community that produces articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies in the field of web application security. Headquartered in Chicago, oak9 is a Built in 2022 Start-up to Watch backed by investors Menlo Ventures, HPA, Cisco Investments, and Morgan Stanley’s Next Level Fund.