Introduction
AlgoSec, a global cybersecurity leader, empowers organizations to secure application connectivity by automating connectivity flows and security policy anywhere.The AlgoSec platform enables the world’s most complex organizations to gain visibility, reduce risk, achieve compliance at the application level, and process changes at zero-touch across the hybrid network.
Using its unique vendor-agnostic deep algorithm for intelligent change management automation, AlgoSec enforces application connectivity and security policy, thus preventing human errors, substantially reducing exposure to security risks, and expediting time-to-market.
This post explains how Automat-it, an AWS Premier Partner, collaborated with AlgoSec to securely extend their solution to a new AWS region, ensuring compliance while enhancing user experience.
Challenges
Expanding for compliance
AlgoSec needed to expand its solution’s reach to a new region to comply with regional regulations. This expansion required a secure and efficient way to manage the new infrastructure, ensuring consistency across environments.
Solution
Building a flexible foundation
The core of the solution is infrastructure automation. AWS CloudFormation, combined with AWS Control Tower Customizations and AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, provided a robust and flexible approach to infrastructure provisioning. This ensured a consistent and reliable environment across regions, simplifying management and reducing errors.
The solution kept the security-first approach. Strict security measures were implemented using a combination of Amazon GuardDuty for threat detection, and AWS Control Tower Controls to enforce security best practices across the entire environment. More details about the security project can be found here.
Ensuring the day two operations success
A sophisticated combination of Amazon Cloudwatch and Datadog ensures end-to-end observability for the infrastructure, security, and applications. Automat-it Cloud FinOps Team is constantly providing the customer team with recommendations on cost planning as savings using both homegrown Albatross FinOps Suite and industry-standard tools like Anodot. Automat-it team evaluates the risks and provides the mitigation strategy using Automat-it’s Risk Management framework. Automat-it’s 24/7 NOC team provides the monitoring and incident management services.
Outcomes
The successful extension of AlgoSec’s solution to a new AWS region delivered several key benefits:
- Compliance achieved: The regional expansion ensured adherence to relevant regulatory requirements.
- Enhanced availability: Algosec is now able to address customers in different regions by deploying a reliable infrastructure.
- Reduced latency: Users in any region where Algosec is deployed can receive a better level of service, because of the closer infrastructure
