CloudPassage Delivers Security for Elastic Cloud Servers 
Security SaaS provider CloudPassage Inc. has launched a set of security products specifically designed for elastic cloud servers. The offering delivers multiple layers of security for cloud servers, and enables companies to manage their own cloud security via a single solution.
Security SaaS provider CloudPassage Inc. has launched a set of security products specifically designed for elastic cloud servers. The offering delivers multiple layers of security for cloud servers, and enables companies to manage their own cloud security via a single solution.
CloudPassage’s cloud security offerings include Halo SVM (server vulnerability management) and Halo Firewall. Both products are designed to deliver automated server exposure assessment, configuration compliance monitoring, and network access control for securing servers in public and hybrid clouds, according to CloudPassage CEO and co-founder Carson Sweet.
- The Halo SVM can accurately assesses server exposure with little impact to customers’ servers, allowing customers to maintain continuous exposure and compliance intelligence, even in rapidly growing cloud server farms,
Halo SVM delivers completely accurate server exposure assessment with little impact to customers’ server resources. Halo SVM can access thousands of server configuration points in seconds – enabling customers to maintain continuous exposure and compliance intelligence, even in rapidly growing cloud server farms. - The Halo Firewall centralizes and automates host-based firewall management to control server attack surfaces. The Halo Firewall also automatically updates individual host-based firewall configurations whenever cloud servers are added or removed – including server cloning or cloudbursting operations – without any intervention by system administrators.
The Halo Firewall is architected to provide customers with unified cloud-wide firewall policy management from a graphical web front-end. The approach aims to eliminate operational overhead, as well as errors associated with manual host-based firewall management. It also transparently addresses dynamic public-cloud IP addressing, (cited by IaaS providers as a major complication in cloud server firewall management.)
“Other server protection solutions that work in public clouds require painful deployment and management contortions,” Sweet said in a statement. “Because dozens of new servers can be created in seconds, through cloning and bursting, vulnerability and firewalling need to be done differently in the cloud; they need to be elastic.”
Neil MacDonald, VP and Gartner Fellow noted the advance of more automated security options for clouds will spur a new wave of adoption.
“Like on-premises workloads, organizations need to minimize attack surfaces, patch vulnerable software and ensure security configurations are maintained as workloads move to the cloud. However, unlike on-premises workloads, security policy enforcement in the cloud must be enforceable regardless of location and scalable elastically to potentially thousands of hosts,” Sweet in a statement.
Vulnerability and firewalling need to be done differently in the cloud; they need to be elastic
Carson Sweet
CEO, Co-Founder
CloudPassage Inc.
Inside the CloudPassage Halo Architecture
Both products are based on CloudPassage’s Halo architecture, which provides high levels of server security automation for multiple security functions, and at te same time also transparently handles problems associated with securing highly fluid, agile and scalable cloud server hosting environments.
The Halo SVM and Firewall leverage ultra light-weight Halo Daemons powered by Halo Grid’s elastic compute power. This design eliminates resource utilization on protected servers, and delivers scalability and elasticity for cloud-hosted server farms.
CloudPassage offers a free version of Halo SVM and Halo Firewall products, so customers can secure an unlimited number of cloud servers. Emerging products and advanced features will be offered as paid upgrades, according to officials.
Both products can be downloaded from the CloudPassage website.
These debut CloudPassage Halo offerings are the industry’s first server security and compliance products built specifically for elastic cloud environments, Sweet added.
