As a financial services company, Better puts data security and regulatory compliance at the top of its must-have list.
Challenge:
Better faced challenges with limited security and visibility using native cloud tools, particularly around data egress. A third-party firewall added orchestration complexity, while high egress costs impacted operational efficiency and hindered the company’s ability to meet security requirements.
Solution:
Better deployed the Aviatrix Cloud Firewall™ to streamline security and optimize outbound traffic management. The solution provided a robust framework for managing and securing outbound cloud traffic, offering deep visibility, centralized policy enforcement, and advanced traffic engineering. This ensured both security compliance and cost-efficiency, enabling Better to meet its regulatory requirements while improving operational efficiency.
Impact:
With Aviatrix, Better boosted the operational efficiency of their complex multicloud infrastructure and simplified security management.
Better runs a multicloud environment, using both AWS and Azure, and was leveraging native services from those cloud service providers (CSPs). The challenge is that native CSP tools provide limited security, visibility, and control when it comes to data egress, so the Better team implemented a leading third-party firewall. Orchestration with just the native tools was difficult.
Visibility and Centralized Policy Enforcement
Aviatrix was initially brought in to provide this orchestration. However, egress costs were still higher than they needed to be, so Better replaced their virtual appliance firewalls with the Aviatrix Cloud Firewall solution, including the Aviatrix Distributed Cloud Firewall (DCF).
Aviatrix Cloud Firewall provides a robust framework for managing and securing outbound cloud traffic for both single or distributed multicloud environments. It offers deep visibility, centralized policy enforcement, and advanced traffic engineering, ensuring that egress traffic is not only secure and compliant, but also optimized for performance and cost-efficiency. DCF embeds security policy inspection and enforcement into the native cloud infrastructure and natural application communication flows, enabling you to see all traffic without agents or a centralized appliance or service. Aviatrix DCF has become Better’s perimeter firewall for outbound traffic, effectively serving as their cloud firewall solution.
Integrated and Efficient Security
With Aviatrix, Better has extended beyond the CSPs’ basic offerings to support their complex multicloud architecture and reduced the costs of running traditional virtual-appliance security product. Because Aviatrix reduces egress costs, it also improved Better’s operational efficiency. Furthermore, the decision to deploy Aviatrix Cloud Firewall enabled a strategic shift toward a more integrated and efficient cloud security posture. “Without Aviatrix, Better would simply not be able to meet our security and compliance requirements,” said Ali Khan, Better’s CISO.
And with a built-for-multicloud solution, Better has positioned itself for increased agility, so it can remain at the forefront of technological advancements to better serve its customers and stay competitive without compromising on security or regulatory compliance.
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