Virtualization and cloud security specialist Key Pair Technologies announced
a family of products designed to address the need for increasingly tighter and
more integrated security solutions to support building and operating public and
private clouds. The solutions come in midmarket, enterprise and data center
packages.
Key Pair Cloud Security SME Edition addresses the small to midsize business
(SMB) and enterprise (SME) market segment. As a drop-ship box/soft appliance
with high availability (HA), the product offers features such as Web and host
single sign-on (Web SSO and Host SSO); SAML 2.0-based federated authentication;
preintegrated adapters for credential store/authentication, including AD/LDAP,
RADIUS, Kerberos-KDC and ODBC; and agentless application integration. The
product also optionally supports firewalls for infrastructure security, access
policy enforcement and multifactor authentication with built-in mobile OTP
server and smartphone client.
The company’s Cloud Manager Enterprise Edition is designed to enable, secure
and manage enterprise private clouds on virtual platforms. As a soft appliance
with multiple fast path processing engines, the product provides a virtualized,
hypervisor-agnostic firewall with inter-VM and intra-VM authentication and
authorization to enable multitenancy, in-line policy enforcement and
application SSO. Also included are interfaces to external policy management
servers, resource management, monitoring, and full auditing and compliance
capability.
Lastly, the Cloud Manager Data Center Edition solution, which the company
said is coming later this year, extends the Enterprise Edition to address the
specific needs of commercial data centers, including on-demand access to
computing resources, dynamic provisioning, allocation and pooling of
resources, remote monitoring, and application metering with the level of access
control security needed for deployments in the cloud. The company said with
these features the product is tailored for "pay as you go" deployment
models.
"The Key Pair appliance product for the SMB marketplace offers
SAML assertion with agentless application integration in a drop-ship, zero-day
deployment mode at speeds approaching 10 times that of other competing
products,” said the company’s founder and CTO
Shivaram Mysore. “The Key Pair Enterprise solution has solved a problem
challenging many of today's leading IT organizations of seamlessly enforcing
centralized security polices in virtual environments. And with an eye to the
evolution of infrastructure as a service, the Key
Pair Data Center
solution enables data centers to host secure private clouds on a pay-as-you-go
basis.”
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