CyberArk Software Ltd.
MEASURING AND COMPARING SECURITY EFFICIENCY AND IMPORTANCE IN VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTS

Abstract:

Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for measuring and comparing security efficiency and importance in virtualized environments. Techniques include identifying a plurality of virtualized computing environments and calculating, for a first of the plurality of virtualized computing environments, a security-sensitivity status, the security-sensitivity status being based on at least: a size attribute of the first virtualized computing environment; an activity level of the first virtualized computing environment; a sensitivity level of the first virtualized computing environment; and a security level of the first virtualized computing environment. Further techniques include accessing a reference security-sensitivity status corresponding to the first virtualized computing environment; comparing the security-sensitivity status of the first virtualized computing environment with the reference security-sensitivity status; and identifying, based on the comparing, a security-sensitivity status gap.