Multi-cloud Application Services Assessment

How cloud-ready and modernized are your application services? Take this brief assessment and receive a customized report.

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Application
Delivery

02

Application
Security

03

Observability
& Management

04

Assessment
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Multi-Cloud Application Services Assessment

Section 1
Application Delivery

What is your organization's primary application delivery solution?

A

We use basic, on-premises server load balancers

B

We use advanced, on-premises application delivery controllers

C

We use a public cloud provider

D

We use a hybrid or multi-cloud environment

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Multi-Cloud Application Services Assessment

Section 1
Application Delivery

How do you ensure the optimal cloud selection and disaster recovery for your applications?

A

We do not have any

B

We provide localized redundancy of our webservers

C

We use global server load balancing for our private clouds

D

We use hybrid global server load balancing for our private and public cloud services

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Multi-Cloud Application Services Assessment

Section 1
Application Delivery

Does your organization use software for application delivery?

A

We use application delivery hardware appliances

B

We use application delivery hardware and virtualized appliances

C

All of our application delivery infrastructure is software-based (e.g., virtualized, containerized etc.)

D

We use a hybrid or multi-cloud environment with a range of appliances

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Multi-Cloud Application Services Assessment

Section 1
Application Delivery

Does your application delivery solution enable continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)?

A

All of our processes are conducted manually

B

Some processes are manual with some limited automation

C

Most process are automated but lack some capabilities (e.g., API support, analytics, etc.)

D

Our solution enables CI/CD pipelines, elastic autoscaling, agile app-delivery and full automation

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Multi-Cloud Application Services Assessment

Section 2
Application Security

How do you authenticate and authorize users accessing your applications?

A

We do not authenticate users accessing our applications

B

Each application runs its own authentication

C

We have centralized authentication for all applications

D

We have centralized authentication with automated user verification

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Multi-Cloud Application Services Assessment

Section 2
Application Security

What is your approach to application traffic encryption and privacy?

A

We do not encrypt any of our application traffic anywhere; privacy is an illusion!

B

We use legacy SSL versions for encryption (e.g., SSLv3)

C

We use TLS 1.2 (or lower versions of TLS) for encryption

D

We use the latest TLS 1.3 versions and ECC/PFS ciphers

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Multi-Cloud Application Services Assessment

Section 2
Application Security

Are you inspecting your TLS/SSL traffic for encrypted malware and ransomware?

A

No, we do not have the ability to inspect encrypted traffic

B

We inspect our inbound traffic only using passive inspection on a TAP with no active policy enforcement

C

We inspect encrypted traffic using our security infrastructure (e.g., NGFWs, NGIPS etc.)

D

We inspect all encrypted traffic using a dedicated, consolidated, and centralized decryption solution

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Multi-Cloud Application Services Assessment

Section 2
Application Security

How are you protecting your infrastructure and applications against DDoS attacks?

A

We don't use any DDoS protection as we don't think we are a target

B

We use our existing application and security infrastructure (e.g., ADC, NGFW etc.)

C

We use a dedicated, legacy solution to deal with standard DDoS attacks

D

We use a modern, automated, AI/ML-based solution that can mitigate zero-day attacks

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Multi-Cloud Application Services Assessment

Section 3
Observability & Management

How much visibility do you have into your applications?

A

We do not have any visibility into application traffic

B

We have basic, localized application visibility for some applications

C

We have basic, centralized application visibility (e.g., connection counts without drill downs)

D

We have actionable, single-pane-of-glass analytics for applications, user behavior and experience

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Multi-Cloud Application Services Assessment

Section 3
Observability & Management

How do you manage your application delivery infrastructure across private and public clouds?

A

We manage solutions deployed in each private and public cloud manually

B

We have basic tools providing some level of uniform management

C

We have centralized management for some applications

D

We have centralized management with centralized analytics across all environments

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Section 3
Observability & Management

How efficient are your root cause analysis procedures?

A

We use manual processes with no automation which can be time consuming

B

We have some automation but mostly rely on manual processes

C

We have partial or localized automation for on-premises or multi-cloud environments

D

We have a single solution that pinpoints errors quickly across all our environments

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Multi-Cloud Application Services Assessment

Section 3
Observability & Management

How much of your operations are automated today?

A

10% or less

B

30%

C

75%

D

More than 90%

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Application Delivery

Your
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Average

1.5

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Modern application providers are adopting agile, multi-cloud technologies to facilitate faster time to market, highly efficient operations and better user experience.

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Application Security

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Score

Industry
Average

2.0

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Cyber threats are increasingly complex and ever-present threat. Modernizing and automating defenses while maintaining awareness of evolving threats is critical.

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Observability & Management

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Score

Industry
Average

1.3

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Modern observability and management requires unified, on-premises and multi-cloud control, for better decision-making, real-time root cause analysis, and consistent policy management.

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