Your automation platform should not require three other tools to do its job.
Ascender Pro is the enterprise automation platform with audit trails, CVE visibility, compliance reporting, and commercial security maintenance built in. It is a direct replacement for what you run today without changing what you built.
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One central command for all your infrastructure automation
Ascender Pro unifies automation, visibility, and compliance in a single platform. Manage your entire infrastructure, from 100 nodes to 10,000+, across data centers, cloud, and edge locations with complete control, security by design, and continuous audit readiness. Easy automation for your whole team with straightforward workflows, fast CVE response, and real-time drift detection built-in.
Workflow automation
Automated scheduling
Version control and GitOps
Role-based access control
Complete infrastructure visibility
Instant compliance reporting
Self-service automation catalogs
Simple automated installer
Stop funding the gaps your automation platform created.
Organizations running enterprise automation platforms routinely find their logging bill exceeds the platform cost itself. Ledger Pro, included with Ascender Pro, eliminates that dependency entirely.
Audit trails and change tracking
Ledger Pro captures every automation change natively: who ran what, on which hosts, with what outcome, and exactly what changed at the diff level. Every job. Every package across every managed system. Every service state. Queryable, exportable, and structured for compliance workflows. Teams routing automation logs to Splunk keep that data in Ledger Pro instead. The ingestion costs fall in proportion to the volume moved out.
CVE visibility across your entire fleet
Every package on every managed system. Every CVE mapped to every affected host. Drill from a CVE to every system carrying the vulnerable package in seconds. When your CISO asks for a patch timeline, you have the data. When an audit lands, you have the report. CIQ addresses vulnerabilities faster than the community and resolves them on a regular commercial release cadence. No open vulnerabilities sit unaddressed for years.
Compliance reporting on demand
Generate a complete audit report in under 10 minutes directly from the Ledger Pro web interface. Every infrastructure change is queryable from a single dashboard: drill into any host, any job, any package, or any CVE and pull exactly what you need. When an auditor asks what changed on a specific host between two dates, you open the web interface and show them. The compliance evidence lives in the same system that recorded it.
Maximize efficiency and productivity with Ascender Pro
Ascender Pro eliminates the burden of repetitive tasks, allowing your team to focus on high-value work. By tracking every change and centralizing your automation, it helps you maintain consistent environments and simplifies audit compliance.
Reduce operational overhead
Use automation to eliminate manual deployment tasks.
Increase deployment consistency
Repeatable playbooks ensure consistent deployments.
Scale elegantly and efficiently
Scale from a handful to thousands of servers.
Ease compliance audits
Automate reporting and compliance audits.
Your automation platform changes. Nothing else does.
Export your existing database, import it into Ascender Pro, and run your automation content without modification on day one.
Export
Export your existing database. Your automation content, workflows, credentials, and schedules come with it.
Install
Ascender Pro deploys on Kubernetes: on-premises, cloud, or edge. The automated installer handles the setup.
Import
Import your database. Your existing automation content runs without modification on day one.
Validate
Run your existing workflows and confirm the platform behaves exactly as expected. Most teams complete validation in days, not months.
Retire
Retire the logging forwarding rule once Ledger Pro confirms it captures the data you need. The Splunk ingestion cost falls immediately.
The cost of the platform you are replacing versus the cost of the stack it came with.
Add up what you are spending on the platform and everything it requires. Then compare that to one line item.
| Feature | Current Stack | Ascender Pro |
|---|---|---|
| CVE patch cadence | Vulnerabilities accumulate and sit unresolved for years | Addressed faster than the community on a regular commercial release cadence |
| Stable release cadence | No stable release since 2024 | Regular commercial releases |
| Native audit trail | None, requires third-party logging | Ledger Pro built in |
| Splunk dependency | Required for compliance logging | Eliminated |
| Compliance reporting | Manual extraction and formatting | On demand via web interface |
| CVE visibility across fleet | Requires separate tooling | Built into Ledger Pro |
| Vendor SLA | None | 30-minute SEV1 response |
| Existing automation content | — | Runs without modification |
| VM provisioning time | 6 weeks | 8 minutes |
| Customer onboarding at scale | 18 months | 2 weeks |
RLC Pro Hardened and Ascender Pro: Modern threats require modern defenses
Traditional security can't keep up with modern, AI-driven threats when it operates in a silo. True resilience comes from integrating security directly into your operating system and automation tools.
Using Ascender Pro and RLC Pro Hardened together delivers a "hardened-by-default" infrastructure that doesn't slow down deployment cycles.
Operational efficiency
Resilience
Reduced complexity
Built for the teams that inherited the tool sprawl.
Whether you own the security posture, the infrastructure, or the budget, Ascender Pro closes the gap your current platform left open.
CISO / Security Architect
Your automation platform carries vulnerabilities that sit unresolved for years with no stable release in sight. CIQ addresses vulnerabilities faster than the community and resolves them on a regular commercial release cadence, backed by a vendor SLA. The logging platform you bought to fill the compliance gap is no longer required.
VP IT Operations / Director of Automation
Your team built the automation content that runs your infrastructure. Ascender Pro gives it a commercially supported platform without changing a single workflow. The tools you bought to work around your current platform's limitations are replaced by capabilities that should have been there from the start.
DevOps Lead / Automation Engineer
Vulnerabilities addressed and patched on a regular commercial release cadence. Credential vaulting, SSO, RBAC, centralized scheduling, and Ledger Pro audit trails built in. Your existing automation content runs without modification on day one. The platform your team maintains gets simpler, not more complex.
CFO / Finance
Every tool your team bought to work around your automation platform's limitations is a line item on your budget. Ledger Pro eliminates the logging dependency, the compliance tooling, and the CVE tracking overhead. The platform cost and the observability cost collapse into one.
See how simple enterprise automation can be
Discover how to automate confidently, respond to security threats faster, and pull audit reports in minutes with Ascender Pro. All from one central platform your whole team can use.
