PRESS RELEASE
SUNNYVALE, CA — DECEMBER 5, 2023 — Cloudbrink has added firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) to its zero-trust entry resolution, the primary vendor to supply granular safety controls all the way in which to the person edge for the great safety of endpoint units.
The corporate, which delivers high-performance zero-trust utility connectivity to the hybrid workforce, says conventional and subsequent technology firewalls fail to guard finish customers and their units.
Offloading remote-user safety capabilities improves the steadiness of present firewalls and the community efficiency skilled by distant customers, Cloudbrink claims.
Prakash Mana, chief government officer of Cloudbrink, stated: “Firewalls had been designed to guard the information middle, then the community, and now the cloud. However it’s a must to ship safety the place information is consumed and curated, which is along with your customers – and more and more customers are in every single place.”
“Current firewalls had been by no means designed with a big work-from-anywhere workforce in thoughts. Our FWaaS takes care of the distant customers, leaving the prevailing firewall to do the roles it was supposed for – similar to Layer 3 safety in opposition to DDoS assaults. When you’re solely utilizing a firewall to guard a distant workforce, the Cloudbrink service can exchange it altogether.”
Cloudbrink’s FWaaS allows admins to set granular controls in response to static and dynamic properties of the end-users and their units. Static properties embody guidelines about what sources or functions may be accessed by people. Quickly to be launched dynamic properties cowl the compliance of the system – 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 person behaviour and alternatives to tune utility 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 person certificates mechanically at quick intervals. Certificates that may be set to run out each jiffy somewhat than after months or years imply that even when a tool is compromised an attacker would solely have a slim window for an assault.
Mana stated: “Firewalling for endpoints is an absolute requirement for safety in distributed methods, which has change into much more pressing with the expansion of the hybrid workforce.
“Our resolution supplies 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 person stage. The FWaaS allows the service to be tailor-made extra intently to the safety wants of the enterprise.”
Individually, Cloudbrink introduced that prospects will be capable of use the service to entry information middle functions utilizing IPSec as an alternative choice to the Cloudbrink Connector. The IPsec functionality will help connections by means of present community firewalls, SD-WAN gateways, routers and different IPSec units.
“The Cloudbrink Connector makes use of TLS 1.3, which is the gold normal for safety, however we’ve listened to prospects who desire a migration path and aren’t able to make modifications on the information middle simply but,” stated 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 supply edge-native hybrid entry as a service (HAaaS). HAaaS delivers accelerated efficiency for cloud, SaaS, and information middle functions.
Cloudbrink’s software-only resolution contains the world’s first private SD-WAN with high-performance zero-trust entry (ZTA) and Automated Shifting Goal Protection (AMTD) safety. With the power to make use of 1000’s of dynamic PoPs referred to as FAST edges, Cloudbrink supplies an in-office expertise with a 30x improve in utility efficiency and diminished operational complexity for community, safety, and IT directors.
Based mostly in Sunnyvale, California, the Cloudbrink workforce has a long time of mixed experience in last-mile community connectivity, safety, and distributed methods.
