Navigating the complexities of secure cloud networking can be a daunting task for IT teams. As cloud adoption continues to expand across the enterprise, IT faces daily increases in security risks, performance requirements, business critical application migrations to cloud, and cost variables. Traditional networking approaches fall short in providing the agility, resiliency, and security required…
Category Archives: Security
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Is Your Cloud Network a Ticking Time Bomb? Part 1: Cost and Economies of Scale in the Cloud
I recently reviewed one of our recent sales engagements with a F500 digital services company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Of course, networking and security in cloud emerged as one of their biggest pain points. No surprise there. The more I studied the engagement, the more I realized there was nothing extraordinary…
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The 3 Pillars of Multicloud Networking Design
What is a mature approach to cloud? And how do you know if you’ve reached it? For many, embracing infrastructure as code (IaC)—the point where you can get out of the manual processes and towards automation—is the defining signal. It’s the holy grail of architecting a multicloud environment. Throughout my experience helping Fortune…
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How Aviatrix’s intelligent orchestration and control eliminates unwanted tradeoffs encountered when deploying Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Firewalls in AWS
Deploying any next-generation firewall (NGFW) in a public cloud environment is challenging, not just because of the firewall itself but also because of the public cloud networking services practitioners must use. The job of understanding cloud networking complexities to ensure a successfully configured and maintained firewall deployment is no small task. It’s a task that…
Security Transit Networking AWS Palo Alto Networks Firewall Network AWS Transit Gateway
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AWS re:Inforce 2022: Quick Takes from a Successful Event
Attendees at AWS re:Inforce in Boston were sophisticated and laser-focused on security. During the conference, Aviatrix CEO Steve Mullaney sat down with TheCUBE’s host, Dave Vellante. Mullaney highlighted that those in attendance were not asking about or just thinking about moving to the cloud; rather, they are in full-on deployment mode and looking to secure…
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Cloud Network Security Challenges During Cloud Migration
The great cloud migration is well underway. According to the Gartner Predicts 2022 report series, “more than 75% of organizations use multiple public cloud services today, and have plans to expand.” For some, single-cloud architectures may be sufficient in the short term, but sooner or later, most realize their selected cloud service provider does not…
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[Infographic] 7 Components for Secure Cloud Networking
Keep this infographic handy as a quick reminder of the must-have components you need to protect your multi-cloud infrastructure. 1. End-to-End Encryption High-performance, end-to-end encryption between VPCs/VNets and between clouds, meeting or exceeding corporate and regulatory requirements. 2. Multi-Cloud Network Service Insertion Secure point-of-access for network and security services such as next-generation firewalls, IDS/IPS and…
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2022: Bringing Visibility to a Cloudy Future
If your head is in the clouds—and you know what we mean—you are our people! Yes, we’re talking to all you networking and cloud architects, engineers, programmers and developers—all you pros committed to accelerating digital and business transformation for your enterprise … and your career. We’re launching a new series—The Cloud Pragmatist—designed to help you…
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How secure is your multi-cloud infrastructure?
Use our checklist to find the answer With the enterprise’s increasing needs for agility, flexibility, and cost-effective scalability, many organizations are turning to multi-cloud networking. However, not all are following the right strategies to secure their multi-cloud environments. Multi-cloud networks are more complex and diverse than on-premises architectures and have more attack surfaces for bad…