Akamai Technologies, Inc (NASDAQ: AKAM), a cloud company, has announced that it is extending its industry-leading segmentation solution, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, to hybrid cloud environments.
According to an official release, extending Akamai Guardicore Segmentation to the cloud helps reduce attack surfaces and helps contain attacks targeting cloud-native workloads. From what it’s understood, network security professionals can manage segmentation across their public cloud environments with faster time to policy deployment, single network governance across data centres, and reduced management complexity, all through a single interface. Reportedly, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation will be initially available for Microsoft Azure deployments through Azure Marketplace, followed by Akamai Connected Cloud beginning later this year.
It’s believed that leveraging Akamai Guardicore Segmentation in the cloud helps organisations address a lack of visibility into application behaviour, the need for multiple policies across cloud providers, and governance issues between DevOps and SecOps teams. Seemingly, benefits of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation in the cloud include agentless cloud-native visibility and enforcement, which enables administrators to visualise cloud workloads using a near-real-time interactive map of true network flows, a hybrid enforcement engine, which leverages multiple enforcement points to allow an organisation define the intent of network policy and have the Akamai Guardicore Segmentation policy engine take care of the rest, integrated reputation analysis and threat intelligence firewall capabilities, which are designed to reduce time to detection and incident response time in the event of a breach, and a scalable and secure solution, which ensures data does not leave one’s cloud environment and solution architecture scales automatically within it.
“Applying a microsegmentation policy in the cloud can give security practitioners 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,” Pavel Gurvich, senior vice-president, general manager – enterprise security, Akamai, said.
