Security in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is straightforward, right? GCP gives you everything you need to secure your workloads? If your answer was ‘No’, you’re in the right place. Welcome to Part 1 of the Valtix blog series on GCP.…
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…
As a co-founder at Valtix, I think a lot about control planes and more specifically, controllers. Recently, I’ve spoken to several customers about our SaaS-based controller – and what it can do. Those conversations have been stimulating and productive –…
This week, Palo Alto Networks (PAN) announced a new Cloud NGFW offering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide PAN next-generation firewalls managed by AWS Firewall Manager. I found several things interesting about this announcement – first, a confirmation of…
Verizon DBIR continues to be an extremely valuable analysis of security incidents and breaches year over year (and some of the embedded humor definitely makes for easy reading). Here’s what stood out in 2021 in relation to public cloud security:…
At the end of last year, Valtix released our first annual 2022 Multi-Cloud Security Report based on an independent research survey of 200 IT leaders. Since then, the feedback we’ve received from customers has been outstanding with a variety of…
For enterprises, security-related visibility in the cloud is critical. For many, especially as they try to gain an understanding of what they have in the cloud, how it’s set up, and what’s happening, often across multiple clouds. Given the distributed…
Azure Gateway Load Balancer provides a way for customers to use service chaining concepts from the software-defined networking (SDN) world to deploy advanced network security as a service to protect their applications. This simplifies putting network virtual appliances (NVAs) like…
Another week, another exploit in public cloud infrastructure. What’s going on? Overall, what’s broken here are issues in what the industry has dubbed platform-as-a-service (PaaS) aka high-level cloud services. This is a wake-up call for all of us to do…
In my last blog, I talked about how cloud enables business agility. How cloud-first organizations can focus on the app without worrying too much about all of the tech that enables the app. In other words, realize the business benefit…
