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Announcing General Availability of CloudSploit by Aqua for GCP

Announcing General Availability of CloudSploit by Aqua for GCP

Aqua Security announced the general availability of CloudSploit by Aqua for Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This release comes after an extended beta program, during which we worked closely with our customers to develop and deliver a robust set of out-of-the-box policies for GCP. This release also includes a Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmark certification for GCP.

The GCP support is available in the CloudSploit by Aqua cloud service and builds upon the open source project.

With the announcement of GA support for GCP, Aqua Security’s CSPM solution now cements its coverage for the major public cloud-native platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud (Beta). In addition, CIS has certified that Aqua Security’s coverage for each public cloud is compliant with their standards.

Major features included in CloudSploit by Aqua for GCP:

Comprehensive Policy Coverage

Ninety new plug-ins for numerous GCP services including: Compute, Load Balancers, Cryptographic Keys, DNS, IAM, Kubernetes, Logging, SQL, Storage, and VPC networking. As with our existing Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure solutions, Aqua Security will introduce new plug-ins and updates for existing ones as more GCP services are released.

Coverage for All Regions and Zones

CloudSploit by Aqua scans the GCP services in all currently available regions and zones. Support for new GCP regions and zones will be extended as they become available.

Remediation Assistance

The scan reports include recommended remediation information and links to official Google documentation.

Compliance Auditing

Compliance support now includes mapping of CloudSploit’s library of GCP plug-ins to PCI-DSS and HIPAA requirements, to provide individual, actionable policy checks to help detect compliance violations across GCP accounts. Furthermore, customers can now create their own custom compliance programs and map any internal corporate controls to the CloudSploit plug-in library.

CIS Benchmarking

CloudSploit by Aqua’s library of GCP plug-ins are also mapped to the popular CIS Benchmark controls. By mapping the policies to the CIS benchmark controls, CloudSploit can evaluate the security posture of your cloud accounts according to the best practices defined by the CIS organization. CloudSploit is CIS certified according to the CIS Google Cloud Platform Foundation Benchmark version 1.0.0 for both Level 1 and Level 2.
For more information about the CIS Benchmark certification, visit cloudsploit.com/cis.

Matt Fuller
Matthew Fuller is an accomplished founder and entrepreneur in the cloud security space. Before founding CloudSploit he managed teams of infrastructure engineers in cloud development. That's when he recognized the difficulties in developing truly secure workloads in complex cloud environments, that led him to develop a cloud configuration monitoring service, CloudSploit. As part of Aqua Security, Matthew now oversees Aqua's expansion to SaaS-based cloud security monitoring. Residing in New York City, Matt enjoys interacting with the ever-growing security and startup scene and connecting with like-minded entrepreneurs.