In this demonstration, Jerome Mills from NetFoundry highlights how our identity-first Zero Trust platform resolves common networking challenges during mergers and acquisitions. Traditional VPNs take too long to deploy, demand heavy maintenance, and introduce severe security risks—like lateral movement—if a network segment is compromised.
NetFoundry's platform bypasses these issues by routing all connections outbound over port 443, which entirely removes the need to alter firewall configurations. Access is tightly managed through continuous X.509 certificate authentication and policy attributes, ensuring identities only access what they are explicitly permitted to see. To prove this functionality, Jerome successfully bridges an AWS application server and a GCP database despite overlapping IP addresses. He then verifies the platform's immediate security responsiveness by revoking an edge router's access attribute, instantly blocking the server from transmitting data.
Key Takeaways
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Firewall Configurations Are Eliminated: NetFoundry’s solution simplifies network deployment by strictly using outbound connections via port 443, removing the need for manual firewall changes or extensive setup.
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Access is Granular and Continuous: Possessing an identity does not guarantee access; connectivity is dictated by specific policy attributes that, when revoked, immediately sever the connection to prevent unauthorized lateral movement.
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Seamless Cross-Cloud Integration: The platform can easily and securely connect application layers across entirely different cloud environments (such as AWS and GCP), even when those environments have conflicting, overlapping IP addresses.
