In Part 1 of this blog, I described the purpose, need, and requirements of a controller. I also differentiated a controller from a device manager and compared a controller (and the infrastructure it oversees) to a self-driving car: give it…
Valtix Brings Flexibility in Cloud Network Security Architecture Another quarter, another update to the Valtix cloud security service. As always, the Valtix Controller (management plane) is updated automatically just like a SaaS, and the Valtix Gateways (dataplane) running in your…
Valtix Reboots Network Visibility for Public Clouds Public clouds are enabling a new application architecture consisting of IaaS (compute, networking, storage), PaaS (with 10s of services like AWS S3, RDS, CloudWatch), and microservices (including container-based and service mesh). This includes…
Valtix Expands Support for AWS Gateway Load Balancer to New Regions Last week AWS released support for Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) in four new regions, adding to the five regions from the initial launch in November 2020. Valtix has now…
Cloud Visibility Insights for Public Clouds The perennial challenge in security is finding what is insecure and securing it quickly (hours, not days/weeks). In an ideal world one would just set security policies on everything to secure and you’re done……
Summary HashiCorp’s Terraform has become a popular method for automating deployment of workloads on public clouds and on-premises environments. Security teams are also adopting Terraform to automate their workflows. Valtix previously released a Terraform plugin, also known as a provider,…
Valtix, SaaS, and Cloud Service Providers: How Our Innovation is Built on Innovation Recently, I was asked to provide a different perspective on what we’ve done at Valtix. The Multi-Cloud Leadership Alliance asked me to participate in a webinar about…
Valtix releases Google Cloud support with DevOps integration Summary Valtix continues to follow the cloud-native pattern of building features with a fast and agile CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous development) approach. This is something traditional next-generation firewall (NGFW) and web application firewall…
