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Re:Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the... by cure on Friday December 17, 2021 @10:00AM (#29593027)
> Guessing it is privileged and self-updating.

And closed source, of course. Must be totally free of bugs too, like all software.

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Re:Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the... by nyir on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:43AM (#29594617)
At least it's using some OSS, like osquery, c.f. <https://cdn.drata.com/agent/osquery/queries.json>, so you can easily see quite a bit of what it's going to gather.
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Re:Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the... by neonnomad on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:40PM (#29600641)
It is based on osquery and we are happy to share any information including our third party security validation of the agent with prospects/customers.

Source: I am the Drata CISO

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