Security start-up Rohati extends access-control gear to the cloud

Rohati to support application access control and user entitlements in cloud-based computing

Security start-up Rohati Systems today outlined a strategy for expanding its access-control capabilities to cloud-based services.

Rohati plans to extend its on-premises capabilities to an off-premise environment to support application access control and user entitlements in cloud-based computing, says Prashant Gandhi, CEO and president of Rohati.

“It could be applied to either a public or a private cloud," says Gandhi about Rohati’s strategy. “Our vision moving forward is to use our technology for trusted cloud-bursting.”

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Security start-up Rohati Systems today outlined a strategy for expanding its access-control capabilities to cloud-based services.

Rohati plans to extend its on-premises capabilities to an off-premise environment to support application access control and user entitlements in cloud-based computing, says Prashant Gandhi, CEO and president of Rohati.

“It could be applied to either a public or a private cloud," says Gandhi about Rohati’s strategy. “Our vision moving forward is to use our technology for trusted cloud-bursting.”

The phrase “cloud bursting” describes how a network manager who has run out of capacity locally is able to “burst into another cloud on an on-demand basis for 20 days, or whatever, to extend capability,” Gandhi says. Rohati’s intent is to enable this in a way that preserves the granular security controls enforced today by its appliance, called Transaction Networking System. This hinges on use of Rohati technologies in a virtualized environment to carve out a “virtual private cloud,” Gandhi says.

John Burke, principal research analyst at Nemertes Research, says the idea is that if an enterprise faced peak demand, it would be possible to make use of services via a future version of Rohati’s product that would be different, likely a virtualized edition of its appliance. But he adds that Nemertes in its research has found that fewer than 5% of organizations today have any type of funded cloud initiative.

Rohati expects to begin rolling out its cloud-focused products later this year.

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