IaC Security Leader oak9 Launches Free Community Edition to Make Cloud Native Security More Accessible
Summary
"A customer of ours was recently trying to meet HITRUST compliance and had a small team with very limited security resources – an ongoing problem in the industry,” said Om Vyas, oak9’s co-founder and Chief Product Officer. Within minutes of using oak9, they realized encryption-at-rest was required, and leveraged oak9’s automated remediation to address both encryption and related key management considerations. oak9 helps them understand not only how to secure the gap, but whether the risk is viable, what happens if they don’t fix it, and why it’s important. oak9’s proprietary Security as Code (SaC) blueprints support 20-plus compliance standards out-of-the-box including HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI, SOC2 and ISO27001. Headquartered in Chicago, oak9 is a Built in 2022 Start-up to Watch with key investors Menlo Ventures, HPA, Cisco Investments, and Morgan Stanley’s Next Level Fund.