K3 cloud services provides secure segmentation across network environments
Craig Bright of K3 Cloud Services
Hillstone Networks , a provider of corporate network security and risk management solutions, provides K3 Cloud Services with virtual micro-segmentation technology to secure its cloud network, and provides secure services with Hillstone CloudHive.
K3 Cloud Services is a managed service provider (SME) in the UK. It offers world-class enterprise technology solutions for domestic and international customers. K3 Cloud offers hosted and managed private cloud solutions, including infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS).
The shared nature of virtual private clouds presents many challenges. Individual customer environments host their own sensitive data and applications, while K3 Cloud hosts horizontal applications that are shared among multiple customers. To ensure the highest level of security, you must segment customer environments and shared applications and separate them.
After extensive research on the solution, the K3 Cloud Services team eventually chose Hillstone CloudHive technology to secure and protect individual virtual machines (VMs) in the cloud environment. Hillstone CloudHive microsegmentation solution provides granular visibility of packet data transfer from server to data centre servers (East-West traffic) to prevent lateral attacks. It is easily scalable and transparent to users and network devices. CloudHive promotes zero trust across environments and allows the K3 Cloud team to securely segment vulnerable applications from other systems and gain visibility and control in their cloud.
“We faced a huge challenge that affected us from several angles: compliance, security, customer service levels and our overall business. By adopting CloudHive, we adopted a modern, sophisticated approach to data centre security, successfully segmented network traffic, and secured customer data protection. “said Craig Bright, IT infrastructure manager at K3 Cloud Services. “With Hillstone CloudHive we have achieved our goals.”
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