Unisys Corp. placed its Stealth micro-segmentation solution for security on the Amazon Web Services Inc.
Unisys Stealth uses micro segmentsation to enact security policy. This is a new virtualization method that moves security measures away from network perimeters to fine-grained applications. It manages security by identity and not network topology. Unisys states that it virtualizes the network by using cryptography to limit communication to pre-authorized groups of devices and users called Communities of Interest. “It cryptographically hides endpoints from unauthorized traffic.”
The London-based company is a specialist in cloud, infrastructure and security services. It said that the new AWS Marketplace offering will make its advanced security available to all AWS users. It will also provide its customers with the benefits of cloud computing such as scale and ease of access.
Yesterday, Unisys released a statement saying that Stealth on AWS allows users to quickly and easily micro-segment their cloud from other users while still keeping their encryption keys. They can unify their internal security defenses with those on cloud, enforce virtual machine to machine encryption in cloud, and reduce attack surface.
[Click on the image to see a larger version.] Unisys Stealth (source Unisys). “Stealth on AWS allows organizations secure entire workloads from datacenters to cloud; manage access through existing identity systems such as Active Directory or LDAP and easily add integrated supply chains partners to micro-segments — at the packet level, without any new hardware or firewall rules or application modifications,” the company stated.
Unisys Stealth(cloud), a range of Windows Server and Linux editions, are available in the AWS Marketplace. They can be used on 64-bit Amazon Machine Image instances.
“Security is a top priority for our customers, and it’s our No. 1 priority at AWS.” 1 priority,” said AWS CISO Stephen Schmidt. “Unisys Stealth for AWS provides additional layers of security to enterprises moving workloads to AWS Cloud. We are happy to announce that this solution is now available in the AWS Marketplace. This allows our customers immediate access the security protection capabilities offered by Stealth.
