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About A powerful yet lightweight security platform that provides insightful observability, proactive controls, threat detection and response for your Linux infrastructure in the cloud or datacenter. Your cloud infrastructure is a massive multi-user environment. Don’t protect it with security solutions originally built for endpoints. Think beyond logging and analytics solutions that lack the necessary context and workflows for true infrastructure security. Cmd’s infrastructure detection and response platform is optimized for the needs of today’s agile security teams. View system activity in real time or search through retained data, aided by rich filters and triggers. Leverage our eBPF sensors, contextual data model and intuitive workflows to gain insight into user activity, running processes and access to sensitive resources. No advanced degree in Linux administration required. Create guardrails and controls around sensitive actions to complement traditional access management.	About SaltStack is an intelligent IT automation platform that can manage, secure, and optimize any infrastructure—on-prem, in the cloud, or at the edge. It’s built on a unique and powerful event-driven automation engine that detects events in any system and reacts intelligently to them, making it an extremely effective solution for managing large, complex environments. With the newly launched SecOps offering, SaltStack can detect security vulnerabilities and non-compliant, mis-configured systems. As soon as an issue is detected, this powerful automation helps you and your team remediate it, keeping your infrastructure securely configured, compliant, and up-to-date. The SecOps suite includes both Comply and Protect. Comply scans and remediates against CIS, DISA-STIG, NIST, PCI, HIPAA compliance standards. And Protect scans for vulnerabilities and patches and updates your operating systems.
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook	Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience IT departments and enterprises looking for a security platform that provides insightful observability, proactive controls, and threat detection	Audience ITOps, DevOps, NetOps, and SecOps
Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online	Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online
API Offers API	API Offers API
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Company Information Cmd Founded: 2016 Canada cmd.com	Company Information SaltStack Founded: 2012 Utah, United States saltproject.io
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Categories Observability Vulnerability Scanners	Categories Build Automation Cloud Infrastructure Automation Cloud Security Compliance Configuration Management Container Orchestration Cybersecurity Data Center Management DevOps HIPAA Compliance IT Management IT Security Network Automation Network Security Patch Management PCI Compliance Server Management Software Configuration Management (SCM) Vulnerability Scanners
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Integrations Amazon Web Services (AWS) Chocolatey Cisco Duo Device42 Docker GenRocket Jenkins Lyftrondata Microsoft Azure PagerDuty Parallels Device Management Pliant Puppet Enterprise Qualys WAS Rackspace OpenStack Swimlane Tenable One Thunder Compute Zuar Runner Show More Integrations View All 11 Integrations	Integrations Amazon Web Services (AWS) Chocolatey Cisco Duo Device42 Docker GenRocket Jenkins Lyftrondata Microsoft Azure PagerDuty Parallels Device Management Pliant Puppet Enterprise Qualys WAS Rackspace OpenStack Swimlane Tenable One Thunder Compute Zuar Runner Show More Integrations View All 27 Integrations
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