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Vordel -  Cloud Gateway

Ignoring Cloud risks does not make them go away

Despite the agility and cost advantage of Cloud computing, IT departments have adopted Cloud slowly over concerns of security, privacy, compliance, and reliability. While IT remains cautious, business users have fully embraced Cloud based services. Cloud usage in the enterprise today is widespread and uncontrolled, with neither security nor audit.

Promote the Use of Approved Services

It is impossible to completely eliminate rogue usage, but most employees will try to comply if a list of approved Cloud services is provided with usage policies. Simplify the use of approved services will further reduce rogue usage. Single sign-on (SSO) and usage reporting are two effective ways to encourage usage of approved services. Vordel Cloud Gateway simplifies Cloud SSO with out-of-the-box integration from all the leading identity management platforms to the most popular Cloud services such as Amazon, Google Apps, Microsoft

Management and Protection of the API Keys
The PCI-Data Security Standard and good corporate governance require that the API keys used to connect to Cloud Services such as those provided by Amazon AWS should not be sitting on a hard drive or in the hands of a developer.

Safeguard and classify confidential data 
The same regulatory rules apply in the cloud as outside, e.g. SOX, HIPPA, Basle II & US Patriot Act, so companies need to enforce controls for privacy and data integrity policies when communicating using cloud services. Vordel Cloud Gateway enables selective encryption or removal of data according to sensitivity classifications.

Meter and alert cloud service usage and costs
With the Vordel Cloud Gateway enterprises can control their data transfer to cloud computing environments to avoid unwarranted usage levels and unanticipated bills. Vordel provides autonomous metering of the cloud services usage and hands control and visibility back to internal IT and finance teams.

Conserve network bandwidth and increase performance and decrease costs
Cache frequently accessed and transmitted data to mitigate against the threat of cloud network outages and provide a level of redundancy protection. Furthermore by caching data, this removes some of the traffic required to pass to the cloud, which instead are retrieved from the local cache, thus decreasing response times, reducing latency and allowing users to save on cloud usage costs.

Audit and archive interactions with the cloud services
From a regulatory standpoint, enterprises need to be able to offer a full traceability of each and every transaction conducted.