Sophia Antipolis, France – May, 10 2012 – SecludIT today announced that Elastic Detector version 2 is now available for use with HP Cloud Services (http://hpcloud.com). Customers can expect their applications to benefit from SecludIT’s participation in HP Cloud Services providing security and vulnerability assessment for cloud infrastructures.

Sergio Loureiro, CEO of SecludIT comments “We are thrilled to extend our flagship product Elastic Detector to HP Cloud Services. Our goal is to help customers to simply secure their applications, servers and data in leading cloud infrastructures, such as HP Cloud Services, by offering a comprehensive and dynamic visibility of the infrastructure. Furthermore, Elastic Detector automatically identifies vulnerabilities related to the cloud stack, networks, guest OS and applications.  The world class HP software and hardware in conjunction with the openness provided by the OpenStack™ technology of HP Cloud Services and SecludIT products will provide higher control and security automation to our customers.”

SecludIT is committed to support HP’s public cloud in all the upcoming products. SecludIT participates on the OpenStack™ community and the second version of Elastic Detector was designed with the support of OpenStack™ since 2011. Elastic Detector participated in the HP Cloud Services private beta program and is now available in the public beta version.

Customers of SecludIT can now span their cloud infrastructures among several cloud providers or extend their own private clouds while relying in Elastic Detector to detect security vulnerabilities in their applications, servers and data access in a continuous and fully automated way. Therefore, helping enterprises to avoid data breaches, that according to the Verizon 2012 data breach report, are in 97% the result of exploitation of known vulnerabilities.

About SecludIT

Founded by senior security experts in network, infrastructure and data protection, and founding member of the Cloud security Alliance (CSA), SecludIT is one of the authors of the Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus on Cloud Computing V2.1 (https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/security-guidance/).
Vulnerabilities identified by SecludIT on the leading public cloud were highlighted by Forbes in (http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/11/08/researchers-find-amazon-cloud-servers-teeming-with-backdoors-and-other-peoples-data/) and published on the ACM SAC 2012 worldwide conference.

November 2011. The joint research work of SecludIT with Eurecom revealed that more than one out of five Amazon Machine Images contain credentials that were forgotten to be deleted. This opens a backdoor to virtual servers and allow attackers to gain control over those machines. Read the full article on Forbes here.

September 2011. SecludIT was selected for the prestigious Plug and Play program. Plug and Play Tech Center is a startup community in the Silicon Valley that provides facilities, connections, and mentorship to startups all over the world to help them find investors and get installed in the Silicon Valley.

SECLUDIT announces Elastic DetectorTM for Amazon EC2, the first step to fully automated security of cloud computing infrastructures

A new paradigm for securing EC2 infrastructures thanks to automatic instance detection and monitoring

Sophia Antipolis, France – March 9th 2011- Elastic DetectorTM for Amazon EC2 is an innovative, fully automated security event detection tool for Amazon EC2. It helps administrators and users of Amazon EC2-based infrastructures to continuously detect holes on security groups and applications, thus dramatically reducing the risk of external and internal attacks with no management overhead. It constitutes a fundamental building block for security administrators to handle security on a dynamic infrastructure, at no administration cost.

Dynamic infrastructures, as opposed to classic static ones, rise the risk of external and internal attacks and exponentially rise the cost of security administration, due to manual management of the continuously changing security perimeter of the elastic set of servers. Elastic Detector for Amazon EC2 is the answer to the increasing security risks of a continuously changing infrastructure. It relies on SecludIT Elastic Security patent pending technology which is the answer to distributed architectures, dynamic threats and an attack surface that keeps changing, automatically building and adapting security perimeters so that the infrastructure is always protected.

While IT infrastructure evolves to answer business needs, Elastic DetectorTM for Amazon EC2 automatically sets the right security checks and corresponding alerts: this is an entirely new paradigm, called Auto-Checks. Contrarily to other security and monitoring tools, where administrators have to setup checks and alerts for each server, Elastic DetectorTM for Amazon EC2 auto-detects servers and automatically sets the checks and alerts. The administrator can do fine tuning of the checks and alerts to respond to specific needs but as long as the infrastructure keeps evolving, Elastic DetectorTM for Amazon EC2 keeps up with the security through the auto-checks.

Delivered as SaaS and without the need to install and maintain agents on virtual machines, Elastic DetectorTM for Amazon EC2 watches the security of Amazon EC2 infrastructures, helping administrators to provide a high-quality, professional service level to their customers and users. With Elastic DetectorTM for Amazon EC2, administrators are the very first to get alerted whenever there is an important problem, even when their infrastructure evolves and without the need for further manual configuration.

The very first users of Elastic DetectorTM for Amazon EC2 are enthusiastic: “Great thanks! What you say about ports and security groups makes sense and is very powerful. This is something you should definitely highlight”. Sergio Loureiro, CEO of SecludIT comments: “We are very proud of releasing today the very first product based on our innovative auto-checks technology. The first feedback we got are very positive, and Elastic DetectorTM is only at the beginning of what we can do. We are working hard on our product roadmap!”.

After a successful private beta test period, Elastic DetectorTM is now available for Amazon EC2 and it will be extended to support other cloud providers. Please sign-up at the website: www.secludit.com

About SecludIT

SecludIT is a security SaaS company fully focused on cloud infrastructure security. SecludIT’s vision is that only a fully automated approach to security can cope with the elastic nature of new cloud infrastructures. Elastic DetectorTM for Amazon EC2 is the first product that materializes the patent pending Elastic SecurityTM technology, which allows to dynamically adapt the security perimeter to changing cloud infrastructures.