Fugue Joins Cloud Security Alliance

Fugue will work to raise awareness of the risks of cloud misconfiguration and how enterprises can address it

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Mar 04, 2019, 09:00 ET

FREDERICK, Md., March 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Fugue, the company delivering autonomous cloud security and compliance to prevent data breaches and policy violations, today announced that it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing, and to provide education on the uses of cloud computing to help secure all other forms of computing.

Gartner estimates that, "through 2022, at least 95% of cloud security failures will be the customer's fault" —the category of cloud vulnerabilities that Fugue eliminates.

"What makes data breaches resulting from cloud misconfigurations especially frustrating is that they are entirely preventable," said Fugue CEO Phillip Merrick. "We joined the Cloud Security Alliance to help educate security professionals across all industries on how to identify cloud misconfiguration vulnerabilities, how attackers weaponize automation to exploit them, and how to build resilient cloud security to prevent them."

Fugue recently announced Risk Manager, a Software-as-a-Service product that locks down the security of critical cloud resources with self-healing infrastructure and provides full compliance visibility and reporting across an organization's entire cloud footprint.

With Fugue Risk Manager, enterprise customers can establish known-good baselines for critical cloud infrastructure across multiple environments. When it detects drift from an established baseline, Fugue automatically reverts it back to the baseline to protect against data breaches and compliance violations. This approach eliminates human error, false positives, and alert fatigue, without the need to write code or maintain automated remediation scripts.

"Fugue's expertise in identifying and remediating cloud misconfigurations will be invaluable to our ongoing effort to help organizations understand how to secure their cloud computing environments and maintain a strong compliance posture," said CSA Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Jim Reavis.

About the Cloud Security Alliance
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is the world's leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. CSA harnesses the subject matter expertise of industry practitioners, associations, governments, and its corporate and individual members to offer cloud security-specific research, education, certification, events and products. CSA's activities, knowledge and extensive network benefit the entire community impacted by cloud — from providers and customers, to governments, entrepreneurs and the assurance industry — and provide a forum through which diverse parties can work together to create and maintain a trusted cloud ecosystem. CSA has developed the definitive best practices for the industry, such as the "Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing", the "Cloud Controls Matrix", "Top Threats to Cloud Computing" and 50 other cloud security research artifacts. For further information, visit us at www.cloudsecurityalliance.org.

About Fugue
Fugue ensures cloud environments stay in continuous compliance with enterprise security policies. It identifies security risks and policy violations and uses self-healing infrastructure to prevent them from reoccurring. Fugue eliminates data breaches caused by infrastructure misconfiguration and leverages powerful visualization and reporting tools to easily demonstrate compliance. Customers like Sparkpost, PBS, and SAP NS2 rely on Fugue to protect against cloud risks and enforce compliance. Fugue's investors include New Enterprise Associates, Future Fund, Maryland Venture Fund, In-Q-Tel (IQT), and Core Capital Partners. Fugue is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner and a Launch Partner in the AWS Cloud Management Tools Competency Program in the Governance category. Fugue was named a Cybersecurity Breakthrough Award winner in the IaaS category and a Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud Computing. To learn more about Fugue, visit www.fugue.co.