Datapipe, FortyCloud Team For New Two-Factor AWS Security Solution

Datapipe, one of the top Amazon Web Services partners, has teamed up with cloud security company FortyCloud for an innovative offering that the companies say will help clients address security challenges in migrating to the public cloud, the companies said Thursday.

The 2Factor Secure Cloud Access solution, launched at the AWS Summit in New York, combines two-factor authentication and token management capabilities from Datapipe's Auth service with FortyCloud's solutions for securing cloud infrastructure deployments, including encryption, firewalls, identity and access management and more. The benefits, the companies said, include improved security, secure remote access, enhanced manageability and control, and greater compliance.

The result is a solution that FortyCloud CEO Amit Cohen said is able to help clients migrate to the cloud with best practices and enterprise-grade security solutions.

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"It brings the best of both worlds, the innovative security SaaS solution that we bring with the Datapipe managed security capabilities and all of those mechanisms and elements," Cohen said. "The combined solution is a capability that we don’t see in other offerings in the marketplace."

The solution will be brought primarily to market through Datapipe, said David Lucky, Datapipe product management team leader.

"It fits our whole strategy of helping clients adopt AWS and providing a full security strategy. ... This is a great addition to that portfolio," Lucky said.

The solution "closes the gap" in the market between enterprise on-premise security offerings and the capabilities available in the public cloud, Cohen said. While Amazon does offer some security features of its own, the shared security model of the public cloud does leave some of the responsibility with the clients to protect their own information. That gap makes it difficult for enterprises to migrate to and realize the benefits of the public cloud, he said.

"It's enhancing what Amazon provides natively," Cohen said. "The combination of the ability to enforce the access on the deployment and control it centrally is a big benefit."

Datapipe's Lucky said those security concerns drive enterprises to be hesitant to adopt public cloud solutions. The 2Factor Secure Cloud Access solution should help smooth those sales conversations and ease enterprise angst about the cloud, he said.

"In the whole migration of the cloud, you have to address that right up front," Lucky said. "We're seeing a lot of that."

Authentication, in particular, is top of mind for many enterprises as many of the recent megabreaches have involved lapses with the technology in some way, Cohen said.

"If you take a look at the last big breaches that everyone hears of, ... they were all about compromising employee credentials. Although they were not in the cloud, the solution for all of those pieces [is] strong authentication. The joint Datapipe-FortyCloud solution allows you to keep strong authentication," Cohen said.

While the solution is currently available only for AWS deployments, Lucky said the company plans to expand it "in a short time frame" to other major public cloud providers, such as Microsoft Azure. Datapipe recently added Microsoft Azure to its cloud vendor lineup and FortyCloud is a multi-cloud solution.

PUBLISHED JULY 9, 2015