FireLayers Unfurls Cloud Application Security Gateway

Grazed from ITBusinessEdge. Author: Michael Vizard.

Cloud computing represents something of a fundamental shift in how IT is deployed and managed. Given that, it only stands to reason that new approaches to securing IT in the age of the cloud are also going to be required. That’s the thinking that went into the development of a new cloud application security gateway from FireLayers that, as software running on a third-party data center, is designed to support any cloud computing environment.

FireLayers CEO Yair Grindlinger says rather than relying on traditional firewalls to secure cloud applications, the FireLayers Cloud Application Security Gateway allows IT organizations to make use of a service that eliminates the need to route every request to access an application through an appliance installed on their premises…

In fact, Grindlinger says the whole promise of the cloud is to allow users to access applications from anywhere using their mobile devices. Forcing them to route that access through a firewall adds latency that adversely affects the performance of, for example, mobile applications. The FireLayers security gateway provides all the application-level security required in a way that can be easily deployed on a cloud platform regardless of where it is physically located with a minimal amount of latency, says Grindlinger. Access to the cloud application is instead routed through the FireLayers Cloud Application Security Gateway running on servers hosted by FireLayers…

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