Weaving Security Into the Fabric of Cloud Networks
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What is the background and mission of Aviatrix and its cloud networking platform?
Welcome to the Fast Mode Podcast Series. I'm Tara Neal, and with me today is Chris McHenry, Chief Product Officer at Aviatrix. Aviatrix is a cloud network security expert. The company is on a mission to make cloud networking simple so companies stay agile. Trusted by more than 500 of the world's leading enterprises, its cloud networking platform creates. The visibility, security, and control needed to adapt with ease and move ahead at speed. Chris helps customers solve the new and unique challenges of networking within and between multiple clouds. He's an expert in multi-cloud networking, cloud cost management, zero trust networking, and micro segmentation. Welcome, Chris. Great. To have you on today's episode.
Thank you, Tara. It's great to be here.
Awesome. Okay, so let's dive right in. Um we've we have all heard about cloud environments, you know, and how people are migrating to cloud environments, putting their workloads here. So talking about security, um, let's discuss why are security risks more common in these new cloud environments compared to traditional networks?
Yeah, so there's several different reasons. I always want to ground I th I I think a lot of things in business and in enterprises really ultimately are grounded by people and the dynamics of organizations. And one of the interesting things about cloud is that it started off about ten years ago really selling to developers and giving developers the ability to move fast. You know, to be agile, to deploy their own applications. And one of the challenges there is that developers are not security experts. So when you think about one of the fundamental shifts with cloud, It's that the developer was there first. And in many cases, the security teams are trying to catch up. So uh the second piece of this, right, is that in addition to developers getting into the cloud and starting to do self-service and shadow IT and
We've seen that story play out multiple different times. It's it's actually honestly very similar to when the iPhone was released and And everybody got an iPhone and they're like, Oh, okay, cool. Well I want my email on my iPhone and security's like, Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I don't know what to do here, right? So So Cloud was Cloud was kinda like that. Uh I think it's a little bit more severe for a couple of different reasons. The first one is that Um the workloads, the things that are getting put in the cloud are are the sensitive data of the organization, right? It's it's the applications that run the business. And so if I go think about, hey, I want to go as an attacker. exfiltrate a bunch of social security numbers, it's probably gonna live in the cloud.
If I am an attacker and I want to take down business operations by, you know, halting your website, it's in the cloud, right? So the criticality of the things that are running in the cloud for the business are really, really important.
And
the last piece is that um to serve the developers and because of the fact that our businesses now run on the internet, the cloud providers made it incredibly easy. to put those critical workloads on the internet. And the internet fundamentally is the thing Um Yeah, it's both the thing that is the fundamental problem for cybersecurity and a absolute necessity for businesses, right? And so uh the fact that it's super, super easy to put critical applications on the internet and security is getting their is playing catch up, they're working from behind, uh makes it in you know, makes it a huge security risk if it's not if it's not treated properly.
Mm. Wow. So As you have said, you know, um it's so enticing for people to to just take the entire workload off premises and just push it to the cloud. But like you know, you pointed out, um these guys who do that, who are in charge of that, are not really the security experts and that's where the vulnerabilities um come to play. So um you know, um apart from that, you know, apart from that um that you know this being attributed to to user types. Um are there any other reasons?
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the background and mission of Aviatrix and its cloud networking platform?
0:11–5:57
2
Why are security risks more common in cloud environments than in traditional networks?
5:57–11:54
3
How does the shift from developer‑first cloud adoption to security‑first impact risk?
11:54–18:37
4
Why do traditional perimeter‑based tools fail when applied to cloud workloads?
18:37–23:35
5
What challenges arise when inserting legacy firewalls into a cloud architecture?
23:35–27:27
6
How does Aviatrix’s Cloud Network Security Fabric provide visibility and control across multi‑cloud environments?
27:27–27:43
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