Akamai Technologies,
Inc. announced that it is extending its industry-leading segmentation
solution, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, to hybrid cloud environments.
Extending Akamai Guardicore Segmentation to the cloud helps reduce
attack surfaces and helps contain attacks targeting cloud-native
workloads. Network security professionals can seamlessly manage
segmentation across their public cloud environments with the benefits of
faster time to policy deployment, single network governance across data
centers, and reduced management complexity - all through a single
interface. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation will be initially available
for Microsoft Azure deployments via
Azure Marketplace, followed by Akamai Connected Cloud beginning later this year.
Thirty-three percent of IT decision-makers (ITDMs) intended to
increase their use of distributed cloud services to improve security and
reliability, according to a recent survey
commissioned by Akamai and conducted by ClearPath Strategies. However,
nearly half (48%) of ITDMs claimed that security tools were missing or
underdeveloped for a distributed cloud world, underscoring the need for
better security tools to protect workloads in the cloud.
While
organizations of all sizes are implementing public cloud strategies to
innovate and realize new efficiencies, challenges remain. Leveraging
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation in the cloud helps organizations address a
lack of visibility into application behavior, the need for multiple
policies across cloud providers, and governance issues between DevOps
and SecOps teams.
"Public and multi-cloud environments are crucial to most
organizations' business operations, but they lack the native visibility
and security controls required to effectively lock down a cloud. For
clouds to be secure, security practitioners must be able to see which
applications, workloads, and traffic flows are moving within the
environment," said Pavel Gurvich, Senior Vice President, General
Manager, Enterprise Security at Akamai. "Applying a microsegmentation
policy in the cloud can give security practitioners comprehensive
visibility and control across all cloud environments, from a single
interface with one set of controls, without the need for agents. We can
protect business-critical applications - whether they are on-premises,
in the cloud, or on legacy servers - while reducing the number of
security solutions that need to be managed."
Benefits of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation in the cloud include:
- Comprehensive agentless cloud-native visibility and enforcement
enables administrators to visualize cloud workloads using a
near-real-time interactive map of true network flows, understanding the
application dependencies and bringing together DevOps and SecOps teams
in cloud network security governance.
- Hybrid enforcement engine leveraging multiple enforcement points
allows an organization to simply define the intent of network policy
and have the Akamai Guardicore Segmentation policy engine take care of
the rest, dynamically deciding which agent-based and agentless
enforcement points are used across the data center.
- Integrated reputation analysis and threat intelligence firewall capabilities are designed to reduce time to detection and incident response time in the event of a breach.
- Scalable and secure solution ensures data does not leave your cloud environment and solution architecture scales automatically within it.
Learn more about Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and how it can contain attacks within public cloud environments.