| | 19CIOReviewMARCH 2022NetFoundryA Security Superpowermicro-segmentation, E2E encryption, metadata obfuscated, and continual authorization through posture checks. At the core, NetFoundry enables the next generation of secure, open-source networking for an organization's applications, leveraging a scalable, pluggable networking mesh with built-in smart routing. The multi-cloud-native, develop-once-deploy-anywhere solution seamlessly integrates with the existing applications to provide security features like zero-trust and application segmentation, dark services and routers, along with performance and reliability. The company's journey toward zero-trust DevOps is worth noting, which allows its clients to enforce access to a network and individual applications within that network. Zero-Trust in the Truest Sense Zero-trust is one of those expressions that are overused in the business world without truly understanding what it means. Unlike zero-trust solutions, most security solutions are a mere protective fence around the internal network, beyond which everything is open to access. Enabling zero-trust in the truest sense, NetFoundry provides users with a secure, zero-trust entry point into any network. It imparts an identity with provisioned certificates, which are used to establish secure communications channels as well as authenticate and authorize the associated identity. The zero-trust model ensures that clients only get access to those applications they have been granted access to. "Organizations continue to create layers of security, thinking that with every layer, their security gets better. However, it complicates things even further. They must identify elements out of their control and lock them down while moving everything within their control toward this model of trust," states Mike Guthrie, Head of DevOps, NetFoundry. The company takes network visibility to the next level with NetFoundry, wherein all traffic monitoring operates around trusted identities and services. NetFoundry keeps tabs on every byte of traffic, providing insights into who accesses what service, where, and at what time.NetFoundry specializes in providing security against external network breaches, including DDoS, CVE or zero-day exploit, brute force, and port scans across any and all exposed connections. One example recent security threat that NetFoundry eliminates is Log4Shell exploit across the internet --one of the leading security exploits of all time. Recently, leaders like TOOQ secured their IoT analytics app with NetFoundry, whereas companies like Capgemini and Arm announced their autonomous vehicle zero-trust security solution with NetFoundry. The IoT solution leverages NVIDIA Jetson devices, and the Arm/Capgemini/NetFoundry solution operates on AWS Greengrass, which uses Log4j. NetFoundry proactively secures the clients' environments from all network-initiated attacks, making them unreachable.Reflection of ExcellenceNetFoundry has partnered with many renowned companies to empower them with velocity, security, and innovation by designing secure networking into their solutions. One such fast-growing enterprise software company is Ramco Systems which future-proofed its cloud, network, and security strategy with NetFoundry's Zero-Trust Network Access platform. Along its cloud journey toward digitizing existing processes, Ramco encountered challenges to simplify and accelerate application-cloud migration and data replication, mitigate cybersecurity risk, and automate and streamline secured access provisioning to workers/remote workers. NetFoundry and its strategic partner for cloud solutions, Blazeclan Technologies, aided Ramco in its cloud migration and network security efforts. NetFoundry's Zero-Trust Network-as-a-service (ZTNaaS) platform was implemented to enable agility, with seamless integration between appliances, users, and cloud services in a more secured environment. The private overlay network generated by deploying the platform connects all devices, edges, and clouds with zero-trust network access security and SASE framework security. This replaces Ramco's old model of network infrastructure, supplanting VPNs, enabling them for today's modern workplace. Ramco and NetFoundry are partnering to embed zero-trust networking into Ramco's applications through NetFoundry's open SDKs.In yet another impressive feat, OpenZiti was deployed by Ozone to embed private, programmable zero-trust networking into applications. "Zitifying" Ozone and Kubernetes deployments improved service delivery and reduced security risk and cost by 50 percent. Their customer were able to close all inbound ports. For a security superpower such as OpenZiti, the future promises exciting avenues and bigger opportunities. Currently, NetFoundry is focusing on what they call "browser." To enable secure connectivity, the company has created a system that allows a user to access a dark unreachable application through a webpage in a zero-friction manner. OpenZiti is the only solution that empowers DevOps teams with a suite of SDKs so that private connectivity is embedded in systems and tools, such as Prometheus, Kubectl, and Helm, and helps them run and monitor the same in production
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