Atlas Platform Data Sheet

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1 Atlas Platform Data Sheet Securing high-value business apps on unmanaged devices for the Extended Enterprise The App is the Endpoint The launch of the iphone in 2007 was a watershed moment in the evolution of modern computing. In addition to changing how people thought about mobility, it also created and catalyzed a chain reaction that made apps the focal point for how people interacted with data and services. Within a few years, no matter what you were trying to do from making a hotel reservation, to finding a restaurant, to reading the newspaper, there was in fact an app for that. Apps are now the focal point through which users consume and interact with data and services Though it has taken a few years for that chain reaction to make its way to the enterprise, it is now reshaping how CIOs and CISOs approach their roles. The Rise of the Enterprise App Economy Since the Blackberry era of the early 2000s, people have become conditioned to expecting mail, contacts, and calendar This trend has made its way in their pocket. While that was a powerful capability for its time, to organizations and the it created a gravity well in the thinking of enterprise IT leaders Enterprise App Economy is to the point where almost all enterprise mobile computing, now emerging. including BYOD initiatives, were focused on replacing the Blackberry. Today, that thinking is evolving at an accelerated pace and there are now leading edge organizations that are focused on delivering apps for their end-users that expose core business functions and other transactional and reporting capabilities packaged as purpose-built apps.

2 The Importance of the Extended Enterprise While employees are a crucial part of an organization, there is a vast ecosystem of non-employees that comprise the organization s Extended Enterprise. The Extended Enterprise The Extended Enterprise is made up of customers, partners, resellers, suppliers, the vast ecosystem of agents, retirees, and all other non-employees that can drive non-employee users that can tremendous value for the business. In most organizations, there drive tremendous business are easily far more Extended Enterprise users than employees, value for an organization and those users are ideally suited to use purpose-built apps that is ideally suited to consume encapsulate just the transactions and data that are relevant for purpose-built, transactional their relationship with the organization. apps germane for their role and relationship with the Even as the Enterprise App Economy comes to the forefront, organization. most organizations are still principally focused on their employees. The mental lock-in from previous years has created a situation where the solutions CIOs have typically deployed for securing and file-sharing have mandated the need for an agent to be installed on each device. While this has created privacy and usability concerns for end users, most accept it as a necessary evil for the convenience of having access to corporate and file sharing. The result is that organizations have been unable to activate their Extended Enterprises users. Because the company doesn t own and is not permitted to manage third-party users devices, they have neglected to make apps available to those users. This represents a massive missed opportunity for an organization to optimize supply chains, drive customer satisfaction, increase and accelerate their revenue, and otherwise drive outsize business returns by capitalizing on the Enterprise App Economy. The restrictions from legacy solutions make them impractical or impossible to deploy for the Extended Enterprise. Because Extended Enterprise users greatly outnumber employees, this represents a massive missed opportunity.

3 The Atlas Platform Enter the Atlas Platform from Blue Cedar Networks. Atlas reimagines how app security is delivered. It works from the underlying premise that most devices will be unmanaged and should be assumed to have been compromised. With that design constraint in mind, Atlas has been built to provide the strongest level of app security, combined with unprecedented ease-of-use, without using a device agent or managing the device in any way. The end result is a security architecture that meets the most stringent InfoSec requirements while still giving Extended Enterprise users a seamless experience that ensures that the organization s apps will not only get deployed and downloaded, but enthusiastically consumed by its end users Blue Cedar Networks Atlas Platform is designed to deliver strong security for the organization and seamless ease-of-use for end-user, all without requiring any devicelevel management or agents. This makes it perfect to help activate the Extended Enterprise. Security: The Atlas Platform delivers strong, military-grade security for your apps. Using a combination of FIPS-compliant cryptography, biometric authentication, strong network security, and a rich policy framework that ties them all together, Atlas protects organizational apps and data even on unmanaged devices. Atlas provides app-hardening capabilities that allow security administrators to apply strong and consistent security policies to their apps. They use the Atlas GUI to specify authentication, connectivity, data security and other policies and parameters, and Atlas injects the corresponding security logic directly into the app binary. The same capabilities are also available via an SDK for those situations where development-time integration is more preferable to post-compile code injection. Atlas uses strong cryptographic, biometric, and network security to allow you to define rich policies including: Fingerprint Authentication Certificate Authentication Data-at-Rest (DAR) Secure connectivity / VPN Certificate Pinning Jailbreak / Root detection Offline Usage And many more

4 User Experience (UX): Even with the high-grade security that Atlas provides, the user experience is smooth and seamless, almost to the point of the UX of a consumer app. The initial enrollment process is a breeze with the Atlas platform. The first time a user tries to access a hardened app, they are walked through a simple set of in-app steps that transparently enroll them based on known authentication factors such as their Active Directory credentials. They never have to leave the app, remember to download some other tool or utility like a VPN client or an EMM agent or container, or even interact with IT to get special URLs or cryptic one-time passwords (OTPs). Ongoing use is even easier. The Atlas platform s patent-pending capabilities give users Tap & Go access to their apps and an Always On experience that gives them the perception of being connected even as they traverse wi-fi to cellular networks and back over the course of their work day. This means that while behind the scenes Atlas is keeping the organization safe with military-grade security, the user s perception is that they launched an app, touched their thumbprint to the scanner, and are now looking at their key revenue reports. Everything else is transparent. Visibility: Business value is ultimately driven not by deployment or downloads, but by actual app consumption and usage. The Atlas Platform uniquely provides rich insight into the actual usage of an organization s apps. It unifies data regarding the user, location, app being used, device type, and device posture, along with other relevant pieces of app usage intelligence, and enables organizations to gain deep analytics and insight about the usage and security posture of their high value apps. These data can be further combined with other data source to unlock even richer insights. For example, is there a correlation Even while organizational apps and data are being strongly protected, the user experience (UX) mimics that of consumer apps with the user getting Tap & Go access to connected apps and an Always On experience even when they traverse different networks over the course of their day Atlas provides rich analytics capabilities into actual app usage, which can help make better decisions and demonstrate ROI on your app initiatives. Some app usage intelligence that Atlas captures include: User Location Device type and posture App being used Frequency of app usage Duration of app usage These data can be combined and correlated with CRM and other data to provide even richer insights.

5 between CRM app usage and salesperson productivity? Is the time to revenue quicker, or is the cost of sale lower when a customer uses an app to self-configure a product? These insights help enterprises to better measure the ROI of their app initiatives, and also to learn and iterate about which apps are most effective, thereby improving their overall app strategy over time. Scale: Atlas is engineered for modern app usage patterns, and provides tremendous economic benefits by delivering unparalleled throughput and supporting massive session concurrency, powered by a highly secure 1RU appliance that is simple to install, manage, and administer. Specifically, there are three dimensions along which Atlas shines when dealing with today s traffic patterns: Throughput: Advanced, hardware-based crypto-acceleration ensures that all the high-end security Atlas provides has no negative impact on app performance and user experience. Atlas is designed for modern scale and can sustain long periods of high volume activity along all three criteria that are important from a scaling perspective: Throughput Concurrency Churn Concurrency: Large numbers of users using lots of apps create a heavy load of concurrent sessions. Atlas can support up to 250,000 concurrent connections from 1RU appliance. Churn: Today s app usage patterns are extremely volatile and bursty. Unlike legacy infrastructure which was designed for a smaller number of longer-lasting connections, Atlas is designed to handle massive scale at very fast churn, where connections are being instantiated, used for 2 minutes or less, and then being torn down, at a very high rate.

6 Atlas: Drive Usage of Apps on Unmanaged Devices for Your Extended Enterprise The Enterprise App Economy is here to stay. The Extended Enterprise, comprised of customers, partners, resellers, and other non-employee users, represents a massive opportunity to be exploited or missed. Legacy app security infrastructure can t support Extended Enterprise use cases as it requires the device to be managed through an agent. The Atlas Platform from Blue Cedar Networks represents the state of the art in delivering secure, usable apps to your Extended Enterprise users at massive scale.

7 About Blue Cedar Networks Blue Cedar Networks was founded on the principle that the app is the optimal control endpoint for the modernorganization. The Atlas platform provides our customers with the most secure, scalable, and user-friendly capabilities to safely and seamlessly connect and protect their enterprise apps across the extended enterprise the user population comprised of employees and non-employees that can drive or derive value from those apps and data. Blue Cedar Networks has over 150 customers spanning every major industry vertical, including some of the largest banking, wireless and telco, insurance, healthcare, and government organizations in the world.