Managed security service distribution model

Whilst security budgets in the private sector have been fairly static, the public sector is being forced to scrutinize any spending. Migrating services to public or private cloud infrastructure not only requires security compliance expectations to be met, but also financial discipline. This paper proposes a solution for migrating enterprise security capabilities when adopting Cloud based infrastructures including IaaS and PaaS environments. In this paper, we demonstrate how security applications can be migrated as managed capabilities using our ‘horizontal services’ deployment framework. This approach and its associated SDK allow customers to implement and enforce security policies in private, public, or hybrid clouds. This allows customers to leverage existing licenses or simply engage more security vendors and stimulate vendor competition.