The cloud infrastructure is more fluid and dynamic. This means a clear understanding of the data moving between virtual and physical servers, complex applications, and workflows to protect them. Security solutions must also address issues such as hyper-scale and dynamic configuration changes.
These are the key methods to lock in the security of a private cloud.
1. Ensure the performance of your virtual security
Performance is one of the top challenges. The data going in and out of any data centre only accounts for about 20% of the total data centre traffic.
Most traffic flows “east-west” between devices in the data centre, which means that the security in the private cloud data centre needs to provide both horizontal expansion and horizontal expansion functions. This will address the dynamic nature of workflow communication, as well as aggressive security processing and expansion requirements.
Such large east-west traffic in private cloud data centres is part of the reason why most data breaches go undetected for months or longer. This means that private cloud security not only needs to start with better-performing and faster security devices (such as performance-enhanced next-generation firewalls), but these devices must also operate consistently in both physical and virtual forms.
No matter where you deploy a security platform, your security platform needs to communicate seamlessly to ensure that it can execute a consistent strategy even when dealing with complex, cloud-based traffic, and configuration challenges.
Choose the right firewall
Therefore, it is necessary to pay special attention to the fact that the development of a virtualized firewall not only requires simply porting its code to the VM shape but also requires more work. Choosing the right virtual firewall may have a significant impact on the security and performance of the private cloud environment.
The security tools should be able to:
– Utilize various hardware acceleration functions, such as SR-IOV, DPDK and QAT.
– Seamless integration with private cloud orchestration and automation frameworks.
– Consistently. The virtual firewall should include the same functions and services as the physical firewall. Policy implementation and configuration should be the same, and communication between solutions deployed in different forms should be seamless.
2. Automate cloud security
Because these environments are constantly changing, human IT managers simply cannot keep up. Security solutions that must continue to operate in a responsive mode in response to network changes introduce security vulnerabilities that can be predicted and exploited.
On the contrary, security solutions need to be directly integrated with the underlying computing infrastructure so that dynamic changes can occur simultaneously in the network and security devices. And these changes need to be fully automated so that security policies can remain applicable at the speed of the cloud.
Automation also needs to solve various problems, such as the association and response coordination between different security devices, and continuous communication with the extended security structure distributed in the rest of the distributed network.
Also ensure automated tracking of updates and configuration changes to address new threats or regulatory requirements provided by the central security management and orchestration system.
3. Integrate security for the dynamic cloud
To ensure comprehensive single-pane visibility and control systems for all cloud environments, it is important for organizations to implement a comprehensive integrated security architecture.
Because the private cloud is built on a virtual infrastructure, it is also important that security solutions are available in virtual form factors that include all the functions of the physical version and are designed for these shapes. This can effectively protect the north-south and east-west network traffic can automatically adapt and expand to adapt to dynamic changes in the virtual environment and can make compliance proactive rather than passive.
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