Securing your data through preventative measures has never been more important than it is today.  With the high rate of change in DevOps-oriented development teams and the proliferation of data across on-premise and cloud environments, it has become challenging for organisations to rely on traditional manual efforts and best practices to maintain configuration control.  Any undetected insecure configuration change increases the risk of security exposure. With the massive amount of sensitive data in your data-center and databases hosted in cloud IaaS environments, it only takes a single mistake for the “bad guys” to be able to exploit a misconfiguration and exfiltrate your data.

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