Ever-increasing concerns for cloud security are encountered daily, with the complexities of securing private, hybrid, and public clouds a struggle for IT Admins. Password policies, termination of idle sessions, and protecting customer data – across multiple locations – are just a few areas where complexity can reach painful and costly levels.
Transparency, Risk Mitigation, Cost Savings
Runecast Analyzer provides IT System Admins and CIOs with operational transparency, risk mitigation, and cost savings for hybrid-cloud IT environments, providing unparalleled comprehensive intelligence support for IT teams running AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and VMware environments (with additional insights for both SAP HANA and Pure Storage on vSphere). For its innovation and game-changing capabilities, Runecast has been recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor.
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Cool Features Abound
Enabling Admins to investigate any suspicion that ‘something isn’t quite right’ with the click of a button, Runecast Analyzer shows if, where, and why an IT environment might be at serious risk due to misconfiguration or potential hardware compatibility issues – and details the necessary steps to remediate the issue. This prevents having to fight fires reactively and goes a step further to prevent fires from breaking out.
One of the most talked about features is Runecast Analyzer’s ESXi upgrade simulation, which allows IT Admins to ‘see the future’ by simulating ESXi host compatibility with the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). This provides the technical information required to proactively ensure compatibility, issue prevention, and security compliance before performing an actual upgrade. Runecast Analyzer also provides proactive real-time log analysis to identify known misconfigurations.
What began as a tool for VMware troubleshooting against best practices and security best practices now encompasses insights also for AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes. In terms of security, no other software platform provides proactive (predictive, automated) ‘audit-readiness’ checks against so many security standards and best practices – doing in seconds what is humanly impossible by highlighting for IT Admins the precise risks that need to be addressed before such can cause mission-critical problems.
How Runecast Analyzer Works
Runecast Analyzer solves this by providing automated audits against best practices and security hardening guidelines, as well as automated security compliance checks for specific standards such as ISO 27001, CIS Benchmarks, NIST, GDPR, PCI DSS, DISA STIG, HIPAA, Cyber Essentials (UK), Essential 8 (Australia), and BSI IT-Grundschutz (Germany), with additional checks added regularly to the analyzer’s capabilities. For any gaps identified, it also provides clear steps to remediate. Designed to operate securely on-premises, Runecast can even analyze hybrid-cloud environments – and it can function fully offline – so that sensitive data never has to leave your control.
The Runecast Analyzer AI, called RAIKA (for Runecast AI Knowledge Automation), enables companies to transcend the status quo of approaching critical issues only reactively. The tool gathers and parses information from thousands of public knowledge bases, forums, vendor best practices, security standards, and other sources of truth, and translates it all into machine-usable data. Runecast Analyzer’s patented rules engine then uses this data to analyze configuration and logs within the environment and provide IT System Admins with proactive fit-gap analysis reports.
Results of Running Runecast Analyzer
Customers using Runecast Analyzer report as much as 80% reduction of time previously spent troubleshooting, as much as 90% reduction in time previously spent planning upgrades, verifiable audit-readiness for security compliance with various standards, and major increases in uptime.
Industries where Runecast Analyzer has grabbed the most attention include those where total on-site security is a major concern. This includes financial and banking, government, defense, public, healthcare, and education verticals. Runecast Analyzer is used everywhere from home labs and small businesses to large applications for mission-critical operational stability – for example, on submarines, for air-traffic control, and for space missions.
Forward-focused organizations already using Runecast Analyzer to mitigate service risks and ensure maximum uptime and security for their IT infrastructures include: Chevron, University of St Andrews, Aberystwyth University, Erste Bank, Raiffeisen Bank, de Volksbank, Near East Bank, Fujisoft, Scania, Avast Software, Notino, DHU Health Care (NHS 111 service provider), and the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
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