The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) launches Software Defined Perimeter (SDP), a project to develop an architecture for creating highly secure and trusted end-to-end networks that is highly resilient to network attacks. CSA, a not-for-profit organization which promotes the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing, established the SDP for collaboration between some of the world’s largest users of cloud computing within the CSA’s Enterprise User Council. SDP which is designed to be highly complementary to Software Defined Networks (SDN), provides a framework of security controls that mitigates network-based attacks on Internet-accessible applications by eliminating connectivity to them until devices and users are authenticated and authorized.
“CSA is making this royalty-free research publicly available in order to catalyze the development of more secure clouds and BYOD deployments,” said Jim Reavis, Executive Director of Cloud Security Alliance. “Some of the largest brands and companies have agreed to participate in this initiative, and will be disclosed in the course of this initiative.”
“It is critical to the future of cloud technology that it is demonstrably more secure than legacy IT systems,” said Bob Flores, former CTO of the CIA and Chief Executive Officer of Applicology Incorporated. “SDP is an important component to allow both cloud providers and customers to secure applications all the way from the back end to the consumer device, and we look forward to working with some of the worlds largest enterprises on its development.”
