Saviynt: Security and Compliance Management for Amazon Web Services

Amit Saha, COO of Saviynt, who brings nearly two decades of Information Security and Identity and Access Management expertise, reckons that cloud is changing the way business operates, driven by agility, cost efficiencies, and economies of scale. To this end, there is no denial, that today many organizations are moving their critical applications to cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) to better manage, secure, and support their IT infrastructure needs.

Though AWS provides a robust platform security, securing critical organizational assets and complying with regulatory requirements directly fall under customer’s shared responsibility. Failure to implement effective security can undermine the benefits of cloud computing, thereby making risk analytics, access governance, and privileged access management indispensable to protect AWS deployments. Addressing this need, Saviynt offers a comprehensive IaaS security and compliance management platform for AWS.

Organizations that need to adhere with compliance mandates such as ITAR, SOX, and PCI or need to secure critical assets and intellectual property on AWS leverage Saviynt to identify and manage risks—creating a state of the art solution for AWS security. In addition, Saviynt also permits enterprises to perform signature-less control analysis for rapid detection, effective investigation and closed-loop security response.

As critical workloads are being deployed on AWS, it is imperative for enterprises to establish and enforce a Minimum-Security Baseline (MSB) across different AWS services. “Saviynt integrates with Amazon Config to provide near real-time preventive controls that implement infrastructure security policies—to stop the launch of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, revert unauthorized access changes, or simply notify upon policy violations,” adds Saha.