Delivering Security at the Edge with Radware

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Well, it's an excellent question because edge becomes a very amorphous term. I mean, depending on everyone's definition of what it actually is. So classically, everyone talks about the edge with cloud, it's computer network edge. Edge is becoming everything. The reason is very simple because everything is disaggregated, distributed. So edge becomes the point of presence where you locate either network resources, data resources, storage resources, compute resources, you name it. I would say that currently, especially now in Barcelona, the 5G edge compute or mobile edge compute is definitely one of the best places, especially for mobile applications. However, we need to understand that when we talk of edge, in order to run applications effectively, the application needs to be built for the edge. It's mainly the backend, the third one where you store the critical data, the state, sensitive data. So there are a lot of trade-offs. Let's say mobile, the car industry, the next generation mobile cars, also called moving, need to engineer the applications that are running into robotics. They need to be built to run on the edge. It's one of them. So definitely, edge compute is starting to take it all. In the moment, the mobile cloud as well, because data center cloud pops are everywhere. And with this thing that modern applications are restructured to be able to unite edge and cloud. Edge is not a new thing like single facility delivery. It's accelerating through the edge access. So edge becomes everywhere.

Well, that's why I'm here. And you deliver security solutions from cloud to edge.

Yeah, that's obviously the fact that the perimeter is being blurred. Actually, let's hope we will do a certain period. I mean, do we think I could define, let's say, a lot. I don't like to call it the virtual, but about a different kind of approaches to deal with it. And especially when the content delivery is essentially distributed through the supply chain, apps for the supply chain, especially for web-based applications, you know, the browser, the consumer browser is connected directly to the supply chain contents anywhere. Actually, it pushes the security to the edge, and when we say to the edge, up to the consumer itself, to the endpoints. So there are a couple of things. People like to say that identity forms the new perimeter. So what do we mean by identity? And the consumers, you know, in the enterprise, is a well-known part. I'm the user class model and stand up. So we are building new security solutions to cope with this threat in order to build and establish an identity on the consumers, on the browsers, to be able to evolve and provide such tracking capability, to be able to apply, detect abnormal activities anywhere and behind any perimeter view access.

Okay, so at the network, we are leading, I'm glad, with the DDoS mitigation topic, network service provider networks with large scale ones. And we are adding to that kind of robust DDoS mitigation service a new form of distributed DDoS mitigation. And because of the distribution, because on the application and application protection, we are providing now a new stack. And using the stack, we'd like to call it providing the best-of-breed components to a best-of-suite. Why? Because the security in the stack contains today application, seven layers, anti-bot protection, web application, file and API protection, software brings four layers packaging. It's the one stack. If you remember, we talked about identity. Identity, user, crypto, analytics, it's a cross-layer. And for our behavioral anomaly detection across all the stacks.

Oh, and so that everyone accelerates much now. We meet a lot of both enterprise customers, they are building their 5G private, so-called the private network, or in the van. Obviously, service providers are building their 5G public. I would think that everyone now, especially the last year with the political tensions, new opportunities probably for the healthcare community. Sure. Is the real inflection. We prepare a lot of attention. We want that one, and especially on publicly exposed web resources, where everyone understands that exposing everything will be opened up to the malicious attacks first. And people understand that, especially those that are dealing now with the 5G projects, the business enterprise resources built or utilize inside.

Them all. Some standards, let's say, building the 5G standards. We are talking in the 5G world. I think the 6G will address some of the others because always there will be a lag between the general technical communities and protecting the network towards the new attack surface. And even if this leader will shift the security at chronology, that especially when you went to the 5G standalone with the primary use cases at the points is that then 5G and 6G definitely is actually utilizing almost web-based protocols. All the 5G core cells is based on HTTP-based protocols. Right. Not the access, the signaling address is the tradition. It opens up. Yeah, sure, there were web-based attacks. I don't. It is up to one taken girls. You know enough. I mean, I think we need to pay more attention to it.

I think more and more, let's take example the 5G. It's a consolidated technology. The microservices running in Kubernetes, then they go to the edge compute. They will never application running Kubernetes, and you're going to the 5G control SBA. Everything is running Kubernetes. So I said in that sense, everyone understands that the security running those applications to have two things: it's to be able to run as a Kubernetes native citizen in order to protect those applications, and secondly, be able to cope with the cadence of this application. Those applications are great and changing very fast. Security needs to follow up and want to adopt very fast to adopt the security model today. Containers. So that's the new trend in the security itself. And don't forget some of the key things that we do see besides it. Remember, security is now downloaded. It's software. Yep. It's a software reward from the CI/CD pipeline. So the same way you download the image, the application image, we have built our security to run the same way from the CI/CD pipeline, adapted to the image running into the cluster.

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