BUSINESS
SURVEILLANCE
application service infrastructures are
no longer residing in data centres alone.
Modern apps are increasingly housed
in public, private and hybrid clouds,
forcing application delivery controllers to
evolve to provide better user experience,
application availability and security.
This is where A10 Networks’ application
delivery solution is helping customers
ensure their business applications are
secure, consistent and highly available in
any multi-cloud environment.
How crucial is application
visibility for enabling a
secure infrastructure?
Application visibility is vital to
infrastructure, particularly in multicloud
environments, to ensure that
organisations can gain valuable insights
into application performance, health
and security. These insights allow
enterprises to continuously optimise
app performance and balance traffic
across the network. This enables
businesses to ensure high availability
and the best user experience.
What benefits will be realised by
organisations that implement an
application delivery strategy for
multi-cloud experience?
Multi-cloud application deployments are
playing a foundational role in everything
from internal business needs to Digital
Transformation initiatives – but it is also
essential for IT operators to ensure
effective visibility, governance, security
and control across both public clouds
and private clouds. The three key
benefits that an application delivery
strategy will need to provide include
the following:
Enhanced application availability:
Ensure efficient and reliable
application delivery across multiple
data centres and clouds, minimising
The three key best
practice approaches
for implementing
multi-cloud involve
internal application
discovery,
performing security
assessments
and compliance
planning.
latency and downtime and enhancing
end-user experience.
Comprehensive application
security: increase application security
with advanced SSL/TLS offload, single
sign-on (SSO), DDoS protection and web
application firewall (WAF) capabilities.
Complete application visibility:
Integrate a centralised management and
analytics solution to gain deep perapplication
visibility and comprehensive
controls for secure application
delivery across on-premises
data centres, public, private
and hybrid clouds.
How can CIOs/CISOs
best transition to
this approach?
The three key
best practice
approaches for
implementing
multi-cloud involve
internal application
discovery, performing security
assessments and compliance planning.
Internal application discovery: The
challenges with hybrid and multi-cloud
networks include issues such as latency
as well as the volume of data transmitted
through the network. This can have a
harmful effect on the infrastructure if you
do not have a thorough understanding of
the mapping and data volume between
application dependencies. This is where
organisations need to perform internal
audits on the types of applications and
their requirements.
Performing security and governance
gap assessment is vital to looking at the
organisation’s security and regulatory
objectives. Documenting the gaps in
the business’ controls against accepted
best practices enables organisations to
identify issues for ongoing maintenance
and tweaks.
With legacy change controls proving
to be slow and inadequate, continuous
compliance means constantly looking
at the environment and controlling
the consumption and usage of cloud
services. With the right software
controls, businesses can form
consistent and repeatable outcomes
with fewer errors. u
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