On: 05/04/2022
With the increased use of cloud services for the enterprise, companies have been finding themselves using more than one cloud vendor to support their business applications. Whether it’s AWS, Azure, Google, or any of the many cloud vendors available in the market. There’s always a reason or two why a particular cloud service is the perfect fit for an application. The problem is, if a company has multiple applications, the business may end up using more than one cloud vendor services, which begs the question…how do you secure a multi-cloud environment and its applications?
On-premises systems and operations give IT security teams the opportunity to be in full control of their environment. Hardware, like servers, switches, routers, appliances, etc. are accessible and within reach, so securing these systems isn’t that difficult. On the other hand, how do you protect systems you can’t touch, are geographically distant, and come with limited access?
Exclusive Networks, along with its cloud-native subsidiary, Nuaware, established a partnership with F5, a leader in enterprise cloud, and application security and delivery services. This partnership adds F5’s list of Distributed Cloud Services to Exclusive Networks’ vast catalog of vendor products and services, giving Exclusive Networks’ customers the ability to build bundled solutions to securely connect, deploy, and manage their applications across multiple cloud environments.
The Distributed Cloud Services’ Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) solution is F5’s purpose-built global network supporting a cloud-native application infrastructure, delivering app and API protection across the board. These scalable cybersecurity services provided by WAAP include API Protection, Bot Defense, DDoS Protection, and Web Application Firewall (WAF).
F5’s WAAP not only defends networks, but adds end-to-end observability, giving a company’s cybersecurity team valuable insight of the infrastructure using a single-pane-of-glass interface. This benefit also helps IT teams identify their environments’ strengths and weaknesses as they build the defenses needed to counter evolving security threats.
App creation isn’t going to slow down anytime soon. The drive to create time/revenue-saving applications will only increase as more companies create and build upon their own software libraries used to help drive their businesses. However, the path to a secure application and API environment is not a simple one as cyber-attacks will continue to evolve and wreak havoc. For cybersecurity customers, navigating through available security options could prove difficult without the right guidance and expertise. Through its partnership with F5, Exclusive Networks and Nuaware are able to go into an established catalog of services to build out the right cybersecurity bundle needed to protect any given company’s network. To learn how WAAP can help protect a multi-cloud app environment, be sure to contact Exclusive Networks and Nuaware, today.