New environment management capabilities in public beta on Package Security Manager

We are excited to introduce the environment management feature on Package Security Manager (PSM) on Cloud! This new environment management functionality enables data scientists to automatically back up their conda environments and get valuable security information whenever an environment changes. For the IT administrator, the environment management feature provides observability into all of your organization’s conda environments and their security vulnerabilities. Giving administrators more control over the environments in their organizations and the ability to take advantage of new insights   enabling better organization wide observability and security. 

The new environment features on Package Security Manager include: 

An Easy-to-Use Interface

The user-friendly interface makes managing environments simpler and more intuitive, saving time and reducing complexity for users. With the simple click of a button, any user can archive or quickly scan environments. Within each environment, you can easily view the creation date, last updated date, associated CVEs, and the number of packages.  

Identify Security Issues

With environment vulnerability scanning, users can detect and address potential security threats within their environments, reducing risk and enhancing overall project security. Organization’s environments can also be customized to your team’s  unique compliance policy, keeping IT teams happy.

Better Administrative Insights 

Each active and archived environment will include the number of packages and the types of packages being used, giving administrative users more visibility into user and environment data. 

Administrative users will also have the ability to set the status of an environment to “Okay, Warn, or Block” and notify the creator of the environment of any issues in the environment. For example, an administrator can set the status of an environment to Warn and set the status message as “This environment is using .com packages. Use .cloud packages in this environment.” 

These new in beta features are available to our Business and Enterprise users of Package Security Manager. Have a look at our documentation for more details. If you are in the Free or Starter plan and are interested in taking advantage of all the benefits Package Security Manager has to offer, reach out to one of our experts!