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Alibaba Cloud and Fortinet Security Fabric Integration for Enhanced Cloud Security

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Technology Category	Cybersecurity & Privacy - Cloud Security Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud
Applicable Industries	Apparel National Security & Defense
Use Cases	Cybersecurity Tamper Detection
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	Alibaba Cloud, established in 2009, is a leading global cloud computing service provider serving businesses, individual developers, and the public sector in over 200 countries. Despite its success, Alibaba Cloud faced a significant challenge in ensuring robust, consistent security across its hybrid infrastructures. As organizations moved workloads and applications to the cloud, the digital attack surface expanded, making it harder to maintain consistent security across clouds and data centers. Alibaba Cloud needed a solution that would not only automate security processes but also apply consistent security policies throughout its hybrid infrastructures. This need was particularly pressing as Alibaba Cloud aimed to help organizations enhance their business operations online in a secure and efficient manner. Read More
About Customer	Alibaba Cloud, also known as Aliyun, is the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group. It is one of China’s biggest cloud service providers with a goal to help organizations enhance the way they do business through their selling and operations online. Alibaba Cloud offers a broad suite of global cloud computing services to businesses, individual developers, and the public sector in over 200 countries and regions. The company aims to become more sustainable and efficient. Customers of Alibaba Cloud, such as Sodexo and Fung Group, leverage Fortinet’s cloud native integration with Alibaba Cloud to secure their hybrid cloud environments. Read More
Solution	To address this challenge, Alibaba Cloud partnered with Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions. They expanded the Fortinet Security Fabric offerings and introduced new automation capabilities for Alibaba Cloud. This integration allowed organizations to extend security visibility and control from the data center to the cloud, ensuring consistent security policies regardless of where their applications were deployed. The Fortinet Security Fabric on Alibaba Cloud enabled customers to apply consistent security policies throughout their hybrid infrastructures, realizing multi-layer security protection and operational benefits for running applications on Alibaba Cloud. The solution included a broad range of Fortinet security offerings such as FortiGateVM, FortiWeb, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, and Fabric Connectors. These solutions addressed a broad set of use cases including protecting cloud workloads, securing hybrid cloud, and cloud-based security management. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Cloud Security

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud

Applicable Industries

Apparel

National Security & Defense

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Tamper Detection

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

Alibaba Cloud, established in 2009, is a leading global cloud computing service provider serving businesses, individual developers, and the public sector in over 200 countries. Despite its success, Alibaba Cloud faced a significant challenge in ensuring robust, consistent security across its hybrid infrastructures. As organizations moved workloads and applications to the cloud, the digital attack surface expanded, making it harder to maintain consistent security across clouds and data centers. Alibaba Cloud needed a solution that would not only automate security processes but also apply consistent security policies throughout its hybrid infrastructures. This need was particularly pressing as Alibaba Cloud aimed to help organizations enhance their business operations online in a secure and efficient manner.

About Customer

Alibaba Cloud, also known as Aliyun, is the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group. It is one of China’s biggest cloud service providers with a goal to help organizations enhance the way they do business through their selling and operations online. Alibaba Cloud offers a broad suite of global cloud computing services to businesses, individual developers, and the public sector in over 200 countries and regions. The company aims to become more sustainable and efficient. Customers of Alibaba Cloud, such as Sodexo and Fung Group, leverage Fortinet’s cloud native integration with Alibaba Cloud to secure their hybrid cloud environments.

Solution

To address this challenge, Alibaba Cloud partnered with Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions. They expanded the Fortinet Security Fabric offerings and introduced new automation capabilities for Alibaba Cloud. This integration allowed organizations to extend security visibility and control from the data center to the cloud, ensuring consistent security policies regardless of where their applications were deployed. The Fortinet Security Fabric on Alibaba Cloud enabled customers to apply consistent security policies throughout their hybrid infrastructures, realizing multi-layer security protection and operational benefits for running applications on Alibaba Cloud. The solution included a broad range of Fortinet security offerings such as FortiGateVM, FortiWeb, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, and Fabric Connectors. These solutions addressed a broad set of use cases including protecting cloud workloads, securing hybrid cloud, and cloud-based security management.

Impact #1	The integration of Alibaba Cloud and the Fortinet Security Fabric resulted in streamlined and consistent security for organizations with hybrid cloud infrastructures. It provided organizations with the ability to extend security visibility and control from the data center to the cloud. This ensured that organizations employed consistent security policies no matter where their applications were deployed. The solution also offered broad protection, including protecting cloud workloads and securing hybrid cloud. Furthermore, the expanded integration allowed Alibaba Cloud’s security functionalities to be managed through the Fortinet Security Management tools across both Alibaba Cloud and on-premises deployments. This streamlined security operations and provided automation capabilities for further operational efficiency.

Impact #1

The integration of Alibaba Cloud and the Fortinet Security Fabric resulted in streamlined and consistent security for organizations with hybrid cloud infrastructures. It provided organizations with the ability to extend security visibility and control from the data center to the cloud. This ensured that organizations employed consistent security policies no matter where their applications were deployed. The solution also offered broad protection, including protecting cloud workloads and securing hybrid cloud. Furthermore, the expanded integration allowed Alibaba Cloud’s security functionalities to be managed through the Fortinet Security Management tools across both Alibaba Cloud and on-premises deployments. This streamlined security operations and provided automation capabilities for further operational efficiency.

Benefit #1	Consistent security policies throughout hybrid infrastructures
Benefit #2	Multi-layer security protection for applications running on Alibaba Cloud
Benefit #3	Seamless integration with workloads running in Alibaba Cloud

Benefit #1

Consistent security policies throughout hybrid infrastructures

Benefit #2

Multi-layer security protection for applications running on Alibaba Cloud

Benefit #3

Seamless integration with workloads running in Alibaba Cloud

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Alibaba Cloud and Fortinet Security Fabric Integration for Enhanced Cloud Security

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