Intel® Expressway Service Gateway - Use Cases - Cloud Security

Cloud Computing Security Today

Enterprises continue to rapidly adopt cloud infrastructure, which is often leveraged in wide-ranging projects such as virtualized infrastructure deployments. SaaS and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) solutions are frequently being utilized for short-term projects that involve a small number of isolated servers. However, the technical evolution to PaaS (Platform as a Service) requires a mastery of portable cloud security architectures that's based on the premises of service virtualization, federated identity, and token exchange.

Our Intel SOA Expressway Cloud Gateway delivers these capabilities and enables your organization to project its security policies in the cloud. By doing so, you're able to protect data at rest and data in flight among dynamically scalable datacenter environments. This on-premise or cloud hosted gateway delivery model has emerged as the recommended cloud computing security approach for securing, governing, controlling, and brokering interactions with cloud providers.

Intel^®'s Comprehensive Gateway Security

Intel Expressway cloud gateway can be utilized with hybrid, private, or public cloud models, and to create secure community clouds. In addition, Intel^® is strategically engaged with standards bodies and the IT vendor community to deliver secure client-to-cloud interactions with Expressway.

Intel's Cloud Gateway acts as a secure broker that provides:

• SaaS security cloud connectors to popular providers, such as Amazon and Salesforce.com.
• API governance, quality of service (QOS), and throttling.
• Security Token Service (STS) validation & exchange. For example, SAML, Kerberos, SiteMinder, and many other credential formats are supported.
• A single point of audit for security policies & integration with SIEM or other monitoring solutions.
• "Write once...apply anywhere" security policy enforcement.
• A scalable and repeatable security model that can be readily shifted among cloud providers.
  
  Additional Information
  
  Visit our companion Dynamic Perimeter site for additional information on:
  
  Cloud Computing Security
  
  Cloud Security
  
  SaaS Security
  
  For additional information, please click on the links below:
  
  · White Paper: "Taking Control of the Cloud for your Enterprise"
  
  · On Demand Webinar: "Projecting Enterprise Security on the Cloud" (8/9/10)
  
  · On Demand Webinar: "Portable Security Architecture for the Cloud" (8/9/10)
  
  · Analyst Review: "451 Group Market Insight - Security Gateway"
  
  If you have any questions, please contact us.