Increase Security with a Redefined Perimeter

At WhiteStar Communications, we recognize that the traditional enterprise perimeter has dissolved. The shift to a distributed workforce and cloud-based infrastructure demands a new security paradigm. Our approach is to collapse the perimeter inward, redefining the edge to be as close to the data and services as possible. This is achieved through a flexible, multi-layered strategy utilizing our suite of intelligent agents: the Federation Agent, Proxy Agent, and Service Agent.

For our remote users, secure and seamless access is paramount. The Federation Agent ensures that only verified users are granted entry to our ecosystem regardless of their location. It leverages federated identity principles to authenticate users once, providing them with single sign-on (SSO) capabilities across all authorized applications and services. This eliminates the need for multiple passwords and complex VPN configurations, enhancing user experience while strengthening security.

In scenarios where you want to establish a secure zone, similar to a virtual LAN (VLAN) that contains a group of related applications that can be in the cloud or on prem, the Whitestar HyperSpace™ Proxy Agent acts as an intelligent gateway. Place it on the very edge of the enterprise to act as a traditional firewall. However, you can move it deeper into the enterprise to inspects all traffic entering a smaller defined "micro-perimeter," enforcing granular access policies and providing an additional layer of security. This allows you to create secure enclaves within your broader network, effectively collapsing the perimeter from the traditional network edge to the edge of a specific service group.

When you want the ultimate granularity of security for your most critical applications and data, deploy the Whitestar HyperSpace™ Service Agent directly onto individual servers. This agent shrinks the perimeter to its smallest possible size: the server itself. The Service Agent is responsible for service-level authentication, authorization, and monitoring. It ensures that even if a broader network segment is compromised, the individual server remains protected. This approach is the cornerstone of our zero-trust architecture, where trust is never assumed, and every access request is verified at the resource level.

Implementing the WhiteStar’s HyperSpace™ Agents to redefine the perimeter of your network and utilizing easy to use “Tags” to create access user groups, you can quickly tailor the security posture to the sensitivity of the data and the risk profile of the application. You can choose how far into the enterprise to collapse the perimeter and actually create different zones with different perimeters throughout your enterprise, providing a flexible and robust security framework for the modern, borderless enterprise.