Fundamental to a cloud deployment, whether private or public, is assuring separation of resources belonging to different trust levels (e.g., customer A and customer B; engineering and finance).
While the shared infrastructure of a cloud computing architecture can deliver many benefits, it also needs to guarantee VM isolation. Altor’s public and private cloud computing security technology, with its hypervisor-based approach and deep integration with the virtualization platform’s management center, allows for highly granular and dynamic application of policies that shrink wrap each VM with a security policy that is attached to the VM through events like live migration, stop, pause, clone, etc.
With Altor’s multi-tier policy model, administrators can continue to follow the typical data center administration model where departmental policy management can be delegated to respective administrators, while global policies that apply to all VMs enforce corporate standards. Administrators can also implement VM NAC using Altor’s default policy, ensuring VM sprawl is not the cause for public or private cloud computing security concerns.
Advanced cloud deployments include automation of orchestration and provisioning to accommodate the dynamic and elastic nature of the cloud. Administrators can seamlessly integrate Altor’s public or private cloud computing security solution into their orchestration and provisioning using the Cloud Security SDK. This also ensures that building a “secure cloud” does not increase operational costs by complicating the provisioning work-flow process.