Akamai Technologies, Inc. is extending its segmentation solution, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, to hybrid cloud environments to help reduce attack surfaces and contain attacks targeting cloud-native workloads.
“Public and multi-cloud environments are crucial to most organisations’ 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,” says Pavel Gurvich, senior vice president and general manager of Enterprise Security at Akamai.
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation in the cloud includes agentless cloud-native visibility and enforcement that enables cloud workloads visualisation through an interactive map of network flows. It helps administrators understand application dependencies and contribute to the collaboration of DevOps and SecOps teams.
The segmentation solution also includes a hybrid enforcement engine leveraging multiple enforcement points and identifies usage of enforcement points across the data center.
It is also capable of an integrated reputation analysis and threat intelligence firewall to detect and respond to breaches.
Furthermore, Akamai claims the solution to be scalable and secure by ensuring data stays in the cloud environment. Solution architecture scales automatically within it.
Microsegmentation policy
Gurvich says that applying a micro-segmentation policy in the cloud enables comprehensive visibility and control across all cloud environments without needing 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,” Gurvich posits.
