To begin using Pondurance services, you must deploy the appliance into your environment. Pondurance provides a base image that's used for each product type, this image contains the bare essentials needed to boostrap the appliance for its role.
This image is ‘hardened’ using PCI-DSS standards in order to ensure compliance in a mix of environments.
Please see the SCAP Security Policy Baseline if you would like to see the compliance output of each image build.