As I have written before I do some writing and consulting for several companies. One of them is Alert Logic, who offer a great line up of cloud-based, Security-as-a-Service solutions.
Today Alert Logic announced their new CAPP program which allows most any security vendor to leverage the AL cloud based platform, turning their security solution into a cloud based managed security service.
I wrote about over on SecureCloudReview.com, but wanted to mention it on here as well. Here is the article from over on SCR:
Today Alert Logic announced a significant new program that they are calling CAPP (Cloud Acceleration Partner Program). CAPP allows just about any security solution to plug into the Alert Logic Security-as-a-Service, cloud based architecture and become a cloud-based managed service.
This should be a huge development in the security marketplace. Using the rich APIs developed for the CAPP program, security vendors seeking to integrate into the Alert Logic Security-as-a-Service offering can allow the cloud based platform to “ingest, correlate and analyze security data from individual security tools”.
The first CAPP partner announced for the program is Rapid7, the company behind the Nexpose VM solution and the Metasploit pen testing suite (Rapid7 is also hosting an exciting new conference called UNITED next week). Utilizing the CAPP API’s Alert Logic and Rapid7 now offer ASV PCI scanning as a service. Other partners should be announced soon.
The CAPP program means that security solution providers don’t have to invest in developing a cloud-based delivery and management solution. They can concentrate on making their own solutions better, yet still enjoy a managed, cloud based option.
From the Alert Logic point of view it allows them to build on their strengths. They have invested millions of dollars and years of time developing their cloud-based Security-as-a-Service platform. Now in addition to the solutions they already offered via this platform, a new wide range of solutions will be available as well.
It should be very interesting to see what new solutions come via the cloud as a result of CAPP. It is certainly a program and technology whose time has come.




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