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According to a recent Gartner study, by 2020, it will be unlikelythat any enterprise will have a "no cloud" policy, and hybrid will be the most common use of the cloud. While the benefits of leveraging public cloud infrastructures are well understood, the desire to keep critical workloads and data on-premise in the private data center still remains. For enterprises, the hybrid cloud provides a best of both worlds solution. However, the leading factor that determines the preference to the hybrid cloud, among other things, is "security." Moreover, as the growth of the public cloud infrastructure continues, it is not hard to observe two key directions of focus by the cloud providers, namely:
- The geographical expansiveness of their public cloud infrastructure to grow the number of availability zones
- The richness of their services catalog to ensure cloud adopters are not discouraged by the lack of cloud services across IaaS as well as PaaS layers
This is not to say that public cloud providers are not focused on security. Their view is that security on the cloud is as much of the user's problem as that of the cloud provider's problem, as evidenced by the shared responsibility model. More recent technology advances such as containers and hyper-converged infrastructure solutions provide enough motivation for the enterprises to continue to keep their critical workloads on-premise and still not become technologically obsolete.
Regardless of the above arguments, a fundamental problem of architecting a flexible and dynamic security solution for the hybrid cloud exists and becomes critical as the growth continues in cloud and data center technologies. Any architecture that can be thought of must address the following questions:
- Can we safely migrate workloads to AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google when there are fundamental differences between security practices between the data center and the public cloud?
- How effectively we can create a hybrid, segmented network that spans across the resources on the public cloud and private data center, while still addressable as a single entity with a common security objective?
- If business needs require the use of more than one public cloud provider, how can we create a "canonical" security model and management methodology knowing the fundamental differences in the way compute, storage, and networks are consumed across heterogeneous public clouds?
- Knowing very well that next generation advances in IT infrastructure technologies such as containers and hyper-converged infrastructure are equally applicable on private data centers, how can we bring in a security management program that evolves with technology trends?, and finally
- How to keep up with the dynamic requirements of staying compliant on an ever evolving set of security benchmarks and regulatory standards such as PCI, HIPAA, etc.?
We identify the following fundamental characteristics as essential for a reference architecture to address the questions raised above. They are:
- It must be a platform, and not a tool or a point solution.
- It must be open with a rich set of APIs to consume its services by multiple means (UI, SDK, custom-built solutions).
- It is adaptive and allows for extensibility without constraining with any sort of technology lock-in.
- It is canonical in the way it approaches the security management by abstracting the variability of the cloud providers and technology differences between cloud and on-premise.
- It has to be minimally invasive, with a small deployment footprint, yet capable of reaching out to a vast and heterogeneous infrastructure for security assessment.
- It must allow for easy integration with existing enterprise systems used for day-to-day infrastructure management.
- It must have a means of ingesting security data from sources internal or external to the enterprise if that data is found to be relevant for security assessment.
In Figure 1, a reference architecture is depicted that highlights how a forward-looking, security conscious enterprise may deploy a security solution within the AWS public cloud and a private data center that has a mix of legacy as well as a virtualized computing infrastructure. A compelling appeal of this architecture is its ability to retain the security findings and other assessment data within the enterprise boundary while still maintaining the flexibility of extending the security operations into the public cloud resources of the enterprise.
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Dr. Ravi Rajamiyer serves as Cavirin’s vice president of engineering. He leads the engineering organization at Cavirin, where he is responsible for Cavirin’s products, services, as well as research and development. He is a seasoned software engineering professional, with a solid track record of building, mentoring and leading high-performance engineering teams. In his career, Ravi has spanned product development and R & D responsibilities at Yahoo, VMWare, and a couple of successful Silicon Valley technology startups. He has an MS from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, and a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis.
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