PRESS RELEASE
SUNNYVALE, CA — DECEMBER 5, 2023 — Cloudbrink has added firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) to its zero-trust entry answer, the primary vendor to offer granular safety controls all the way in which to the consumer edge for the great safety of endpoint gadgets.
The corporate, which delivers high-performance zero-trust software connectivity to the hybrid workforce, says conventional and subsequent technology firewalls fail to guard finish customers and their gadgets.
Offloading remote-user safety capabilities improves the steadiness of current firewalls and the community efficiency skilled by distant customers, Cloudbrink claims.
Prakash Mana, chief govt officer of Cloudbrink, mentioned: “Firewalls have been designed to guard the info middle, then the community, and now the cloud. However you need to ship safety the place knowledge is consumed and curated, which is along with your customers – and more and more customers are all over the place.”
“Current firewalls have been by no means designed with a big work-from-anywhere workforce in thoughts. Our FWaaS takes care of the distant customers, leaving the present firewall to do the roles it was supposed for – comparable to Layer 3 safety in opposition to DDoS assaults. If you happen to’re solely utilizing a firewall to guard a distant workforce, the Cloudbrink service can substitute it altogether.”
Cloudbrink’s FWaaS permits admins to set granular controls in keeping with static and dynamic properties of the end-users and their gadgets. Static properties embrace guidelines about what assets or purposes might be accessed by people. Quickly to be launched dynamic properties cowl the compliance of the machine – when a virus scan ran final, for instance.
Additionally scheduled for a future launch are reporting capabilities enabling safety and networking groups to identify anomalies based mostly on consumer behaviour and alternatives to tune software efficiency.
Cloudbrink’s service already implements zero-trust entry and transferring goal protection rules. It makes use of rotational mTLS (mutual Transport Layer Safety) 1.3 to refresh consumer certificates robotically at quick intervals. Certificates that may be set to run out each couple of minutes somewhat than after months or years imply that even when a tool is compromised an attacker would solely have a slender window for an assault.
Mana mentioned: “Firewalling for endpoints is an absolute requirement for safety in distributed methods, which has turn into much more pressing with the expansion of the hybrid workforce.
“Our answer gives higher administration and management for IT groups with out compromising the productiveness of end-users. We already deploy best-in-class zero-trust safety to manage entry on the consumer stage. The FWaaS permits the service to be tailor-made extra carefully to the safety wants of the enterprise.”
Individually, Cloudbrink introduced that clients will have the ability to use the service to entry knowledge middle purposes utilizing IPSec as a substitute for the Cloudbrink Connector. The IPsec functionality will help connections by current community firewalls, SD-WAN gateways, routers and different IPSec gadgets.
“The Cloudbrink Connector makes use of TLS 1.3, which is the gold commonplace for safety, however we’ve listened to clients who need a migration path and aren’t able to make modifications on the knowledge middle simply but,” mentioned Mana.
FWaaS performance and IPsec connectivity are bundled with the Cloudbrink service beginning December 2023.
About Cloudbrink
Cloudbrink brings high-performance connectivity to the trendy hybrid workforce wherever on the planet. The corporate makes use of AI and ML to offer edge-native hybrid entry as a service (HAaaS). HAaaS delivers accelerated efficiency for cloud, SaaS, and knowledge middle purposes.
Cloudbrink’s software-only answer contains the world’s first private SD-WAN with high-performance zero-trust entry (ZTA) and Automated Shifting Goal Protection (AMTD) safety. With the flexibility to make use of 1000’s of dynamic PoPs referred to as FAST edges, Cloudbrink gives an in-office expertise with a 30x improve in software efficiency and decreased operational complexity for community, safety, and IT directors.
Primarily based in Sunnyvale, California, the Cloudbrink group has a long time of mixed experience in last-mile community connectivity, safety, and distributed methods.
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