SDP Framework
SDP technology creates a secure perimeter by isolating services from vulnerable networks using rules. The SDP of the CSA accomplishes three goals :
- It offers a network that is air-gapped, provisioned, and on-demand.
- It divides network resources into network perimeters that are defined.
- Before connecting to an isolated service, it authenticates devices and users before approving the device/user combination. Unauthorized devices and users are unable to connect to isolated services thanks to the SDP framework.
Trusted devices receive a one-time temporary connection to the network infrastructure after authentication. Organizations can use software-defined management to simplify application security and user authentication activities.
Software-Defined Perimeter(SDP)
Software-defined Perimeter (SDP) is a network infrastructure that protects cloud-based and on-premise data centers using remote capabilities. The purpose of an SDP strategy is to employ software rather than hardware as the foundation for the network perimeter. The SDP was created by the Cloud Security Alliance in 2013 as a solution for secure networks that minimized the danger of data breaches.
Secure access to network-based services, applications, and systems in public and private clouds, as well as on-premises, is provided by SDP as it cloaks systems within the perimeter so others can’t see them, the SDP technique is frequently referred to as creating a “black cloud.”