Netwrix, a cybersecurity vendor that makes data security easy, today announced that its Netwrix Auditor for VMware has attained VMware Partner Ready for VMware Cloud on AWS validation. 

By validating Netwrix Auditor for VMware with VMware Cloud on AWS and attaining the VMware Partner Ready for VMware Cloud on AWS logo, Netwrix has tested and verified interoperability and can fully manage customer support requests for Netwrix Auditor for VMware with VMware Cloud on AWS.

"We are pleased that Netwrix and Netwrix Auditor for VMware are validated for VMware Cloud on AWS. This signifies to customers that Netwrix Auditor for VMware can be deployed with the knowledge and reassurance that the partner fully supports the specified versions and configurations on VMware Cloud on AWS," said Pat Lee, vice president, Emerging ISVs & Solutions, VMware.

With Netwrix Auditor for VMware, organizations can monitor all access and changes to their virtual infrastructure to ease IT auditing burden, validate compliance with far less effort, and safeguard sensitive data in hybrid cloud workloads. Its ready-to-use intelligence empowers IT professionals to automate many of the security, compliance and IT operations-related tasks that previously required hours to complete, so they can meet their goals in a more efficient manner. By using Netwrix Auditor for VMware within their VMware Cloud on AWS environment, businesses can:

• Detect and investigate security threats.

Organizations receive complete visibility into activity that might endanger the VMware environment or compromise the security of sensitive data in virtualized workloads, such as suspicious logon attempts, VM copies, or cluster modifications to mitigate the risk of data breaches, security breaches and business disruptions.

• Prove compliance with less effort.

Organizations can streamline audit and compliance activities with out-of-the-box reports for PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, FISMA/NIST, GDPR and many other compliance regulations. Using Interactive search, IT professionals can provide detailed, rapid response to ad-hoc questions from auditors.

• Increase the IT team's productivity.

Organizations no longer need to painstakingly dig through logs and manually create reports. IT professionals can get the actionable intelligence they need and when they need it with no hassle. This includes intuitive dashboards, prebuilt reports and proactive alerts.

"IT organizations face ever-growing pressure to leverage the agility and power of the cloud, while ensuring cyber security and smooth operation to support business goals. VMware Cloud on AWS enables VMware customers to more easily adopt hybrid cloud by extending their on-premises VMware environments to the AWS cloud. Visibility into what is happening in VMware Cloud on AWS and actionable intelligence provided by Netwrix Auditor enables organizations to save time and effort with audit and compliance. It helps keep sensitive data in virtualized hybrid cloud workloads more secure, so they can focus their resources on what really matters to the business," said John Newsom, VP of Business Development at Netwrix.

Partner Ready for VMware Cloud on AWS program enables partners to validate their application/infrastructure component on VMware Cloud on AWS. Partners extend their on-premise solution capabilities to the cloud and ensure consistent user experience and functionality on VMware Cloud on AWS. This increases customers' confidence in vendor solutions.

Netwrix and Netwrix Auditor for VMware can be found within the online VMware Solution Exchange (VSX) at https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/netwrix-auditor-9-9. The VMware Solution Exchange is an online marketplace where VMware partners and developers can publish rich marketing content and downloadable software for our customers.