NATIVE CLOUD AGILITY, WITH GUARDRAILS

To enforce policy and identity management, software defined infrastructure (compute, storage, networking and services) offers a vast and powerful chest of tools, and security professionals need new methods and tooling to secure workloads in the cloud. GlobalDots software is unique as it not only detects configurations that are out of compliance, but it automatically remediates them too. In the old data center model, physical access to infrastructure created a need for human, process-based controls to protect assets.  These barriers have been eliminated in the cloud model - innovative organizations are using Software Defined Operations to replace manual processes (e.g. approval, ticketing, deployment) with controlled automation to foster the new pace of delivery.

AUTOMATED GUARDRAILS MAXIMIZE VALUE FROM APP ISOLATION

One of the key “new ways of working” in public cloud is the principle of application isolation, which is best achieved through a well-architected and controlled multi-account strategy.  It is recommended to deploy separate production and non-production accounts for each business service.  For large enterprises (especially in regulated industries), this isolation can be difficult to manage at scale without GlobalDots' automation and guardrails.  By doing so, the organization gains extraordinary benefits.

GlobalDots helps your cloud team be more efficient, giving it the tooling and automation necessary to manage the complexity of implementing the best practice of a multi-account strategy and allowing SecOps and DevOps teams to focus on higher-value activities.  This shift to being a trusted advisor allows technologists to become more embedded in the business, being advocates for business solutions expediting time to value for new services and products.

SECURITY GUARDRAILS FOR MULTI-ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT

Developing applications collaboratively creates unique challenges for security teams.  Business partners faced with weeks or months of project delays often resort to starting application development offsite with their vendor to “accelerate” the project. Late in the project they discover that key enterprise controls were not considered part of the requirements, causing delays and rework.

GlobalDots allows you to turn this paradigm upside down: Utilizing native cloud services (e.g. the AWS Console and APIs) in conjunction with GlobalDots’ enterprise controls, the system integrator or third parties can be granted access to a cloud development account before the ink is dry on their statement of work. 

This account will be fully managed by automated guardrails configured to meet enterprise policies. GlobalDots' guardrails ensure that the combined project team develops the application under full enterprise policy management, with federated authentication and access to core corporate resources (e.g. AD, DNS, NTP, Version Control, Databases & APIs) so that the Development environment truly matches Production.