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Diving into Zero Trust Security
The Zero Trust approach involves a combination of more-secure authentication approaches, such as MFA with profiling and posturing of the client device, along with some stronger encryption checks. This article shares some insights on Zero Trust Security for your organization and your customers, and how you can get started with it.
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The What and Why of Programmable Proxies
A question which gets often asked is “What is a programmable proxy, and why do I need one?” This article tries to answer this question from different perspectives. We will start with a brief definition of what a proxy is, then discuss how proxies evolved, explaining what needs they responded to and what benefits they offered at each stage. Finally, we discuss several aspects of programmability.
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Mitigating Inside and Outside Threats with Zero Trust Security
As ransomware and phishing attacks increase, it is evident that attack vectors can be found on the inside in abundance. Zero Trust Security can be thought of as a new security architecture approach where the main goals are: verifying endpoints before any network communications take place, giving least privilege to endpoints, and continuously evaluating the endpoints throughout the communication.
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A Reference Architecture for Fine-Grained Access Management on the Cloud
In this article, we will define a new reference architecture for cloud-native companies that are looking for a simplified access management solution for their cloud resources, from SSH hosts, databases, data warehouses, to message pipelines and cloud storage endpoints.
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A Distributed Access Control Architecture for Cloud Computing
Cloud computing’s multitenancy and virtualization features pose unique security and access control challenges. In this article, authors discuss a distributed architecture based on the principles from security management and software engineering to address cloud computing’s security challenges.