CODA Footprint is the first SaaS proactive managed security platform that is designed specifically to simplify SecOps and reduce your attack surface. By leveraging machine learning and big data we bring you comprehensive and personalized risk reports in minutes. With no upfront investments and even with little overhead to your engineering and security teams. You are thus able to prioritize response to real risk scenarios computed on the actual vulnerabilities identified on your digital assets. Compared to the traditional approach Footprint makes this possible in minutes, instead of weeks of intense work by a strong team of security experts. And that’s not all! Once your assets are onboarded into Footprint, you'll be receiving instant alerts, recommendations and meaningful notifications on their cyber risk evolution. All thanks to our AI. You can then take an immediate action, build a remediation plan or build a strategic roadmap to cover all relevant controls to achieve and ensure compliance over time. Built-in automations and integrations (with CRM, ERP, PSA, RMM, SIEM, SOAR) boost your teams' productivity. Footprint is able to discover and assess any IT asset on-prem or in the cloud, by using and agent-based, agentless or BYOL scanner, or a mix that you can choose for each organization. With Footprint you can easily: Bridge business expectations with cyber security operations Improve operational efficiency through automation and continuous monitoring Consolidate Risk and Compliance Management Evaluate your threat exposure and current attack surface Identify known and unknown assets present in your network Widen your visibility into assets and track their evolution This Azure VM sets up a private Footprint Cloud Appliance (FCA) within your Azure Subscription. You will thus be able to unleash all the power of Footprint for your Azure workloads. This is a BYOL license and the FCA must report to your Footprint Instance.