FireLayers Cloud Gateway Takes Control of Multi-Cloud Security
September 18, 2014
Grazed from EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet. Author: Jude Chao.
When it comes to enterprise data security and regulatory compliance, consistency is half the battle—one reason that automation is becoming increasingly important to information security. Unfortunately, cloud computing complicates matters, particularly for organizations that have adopted more than one public cloud application. Application security varies between vendors, making centralized, uniform activity control and policy enforcement elusive goals. Redwood City-based cloud security vendor FireLayers aims to make those goals much more attainable with its flagship FireLayers Cloud Application Security Gateway, announced today.
How FireLayers delivers consistent cloud application security
Hosted either by FireLayers or in an organization’s own private cloud, the proxy-based Cloud Application Security Gateway sits between users and whatever cloud applications the enterprise has configured it to protect. Users must go through the proxy to get to the applications. "There’s no way to go around us and still get to the cloud application on the other side," FireLayers co-founder and CEO Yair Grindlinger told me…
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