Aprigo Unveils First SaaS Data Governance App

Aprigo, a provider of unstructured data management solutions, has unveiled the first Software-as-a-Service, or "SaaS (News - Alert)," data governance application designed to help organizations prevent data breaches while saving time and money. 

Officials with Aprigo said that Aprigo NINJA, which is deployed as an affordable SaaS offering, quickly discovers data vulnerabilities, identifies cost saving opportunities, remediates and monitors the environment by alerting appropriate resources of changes, controls data vulnerabilities, and streamlines the fixing of file permissions and access rights from a simple dashboard view.

"With more users and more unstructured data, one of the great IT struggles today is who has access to what data and how the file servers storing it are being utilized," said Gil Zimmermann, CEO and co-founder of Aprigo, in a statement. 

Zimmermann said that the company took a unique approach to help solve this challenge with the Aprigo NINJA solution, delivering it as a simple and affordable SaaS offering that address the needs of small and mid-sized organizations. 

He said that within minutes, customers can identify exposed data in their environment, find and track who has access to that data, as well as determine how it is being used, and most importantly, make informed decisions to properly secure it and reduce the cost of storing it.

According to company officials, Aprigo NINJA is the first suite of data governance compliance applications that are SaaS-based and focused on securing and reducing the cost of unstructured data. 

Company officials said that the product's SaaS meta-data-based architecture requires no changes to existing infrastructure or processes and no additional databases or agents, delivers immediate value, and makes it very easy to manage multiple remote sites. 

In just minutes, the Aprigo NINJA dashboard provides actionable compliance information to remediate vulnerabilities and reduce storage costs.