The cloud breaks down the assumption of network security and forces companies to have discipline around data security by assuming the environment is hostile. It requires considering security for all points where data flows, who has access, and other factors like backups. Identity and access management is critical as it is where the security system connects to users.

1. “The cloud forces us to
have a different kind of
discipline around data
security, mostly because it
breaks down the assumption
that we have any kind of
network security at all.”
John thielens
Chief Security Officer, Axway
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accelerators
Can big data
transform your
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2. About Axway
• Founded in 2001
• Based in Phoenix, Arizona with offices in over 20 countries
• Specializes in managing, securing & monitoring
business interactions
• Operating for over a decade providing solutions to
leading organizations across most industries
• Over 1,700 employees
• 11,000 customers in 100 countries
For more information, visit axway.com
There’s always a risk. There are risks in doing
things the old way and risks with doing things
the new way—the cloud way. People who just say
“no” aren’t engaging in the right discussion.

3. Career Highlights
• 30 years of experience in the
IT industry
• Formerly, VP of Product Marketing
at GXS & Inovis
• Personal interests: attending his
children’s dance recitals & baseball
games, playing piano, cycling &
rollerblading
Can you tell us about Axway and the services that you offer?
We describe ourselves as a business interaction networks company. Business
interactions are about connecting businesses to other businesses and also
about connecting the components of an enterprise together. Our services
include business-to-business integrations, managed file transfer, business
operations monitoring, process management, and email and identity
security, which are offered on-premise or in the cloud.
We’ve been involved in the cloud since before it was called the cloud,
managing services on behalf of some of our largest clients, and our data
transmission solutions have been used by a number of vendors to move data
in and out of the cloud. We are continuing to invest in cloud services and
over the last few months, we’ve developed services around our heritage of
B2B and around community management.
Cloud Accelerator / JOHN thielens & alan taylor / axway
John Thielens
Chief Architect of Cloud Service
& Chief Security Officer, Axway
Career Highlights
• 30 years of experience in the
IT industry
• Formerly, Director of Business
Development at MobileAware
• Formerly, Business Development
at IBM Tivoli
• Personal interests: spending
time with family, golfing &
entertaining guests
Alan Taylor
Alliances Director, Axway

4. what are the advantages of big data?
The cloud is an infinitely scalable place and so this means that we’re dealing
with more and more data. Businesses no longer have to throw data away. The
prize of “Big Data” is of course the analytics derived from all that volume,
velocity and variety of data. Data gathered from multiple sources including the
cloud can be used to find new insights and that analysis is quickly becoming a
new wave of competitive differentiation. Being able to manage “Big Data” and
deliver powerful data governance as a strategy leads all companies towards
greater efficiencies, lower risk and increased revenues.
Stored data that once was deemed worthless can now allow businesses to
discover new nuggets of value out of that data they already have. We can
create new marketing programs to drive new business that’s quantifiable,
because they can discover buying patterns and correlate information to provide
data points for multiple initiatives.
There are also defensive value points to big data. If you think about big data
analysis in regards to security, it can help businesses find gaps and risks, and
close them off to prevent loss of value by enhancing the security. Today it is
critical that within the enterprise and the cloud we understand how to protect
the customer brand by ensuring control, compliance, information security and
data protection in everything they do, including big data.
what are some of the challenges associated with big data?
Today, we can take a photograph on a device and press a button to upload
the photograph on Facebook in seconds. It’s that kind of mobility and velocity
with which data’s coming at us. It’s not only the amount of data that’s being
uploaded; it’s the variety of data as well. Creating effective systems and
processes for data standardization, information sharing, and collaboration,
auditability and security across the entire business ecosystem will soon
become an essential task for CIOs and their IT organizations.
As big data makes its way back to these data warehouses for analytics, there
are different varieties of data making their way across the network. Our job at
Axway is to transform that through our gateway technology into a common
denominator that then can go into and leave the data warehouse securely. So,
volume, velocity and variety is really the challenge that we are now constantly
responding to when we talk to customers about big data.
Are some companies using data security as an excuse not to adopt cloud?
The great thing about security is that it can play the role of an excuse very
easily. That can always be kind of a “just because” reason, but that’s really
an unfair game to play. I think even the word is wrong—we should be talking
about risk. There’s always a risk. There are risks in doing things the old way and
there are new risks with doing things the new way, the cloud way. People who
just say “no” aren’t engaging in the right discussion.
Additionally, I think that the cloud forces us to have a different kind of
discipline around data security, mostly because it breaks down the assumption
that we have any kind of network security at all.
to learn more about Axway,
visit axway.com
Our services in
combination with
CA Technologies
products results in
a powerful story
for our customers.

5. To learn more from cloud
service providers working
with CA Technologies, visit
ca.com/cloudaccelerators
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We think about all the touch points for the data, because we assume that the
environment is hostile. Now, in an on-premise world, we often will think about
other types of defenses, like network-based defenses, but I think we may find
that the vigilance that cloud computing forces us to have, in which we assume
the data lives in a hostile environment, is actually a good discipline to bring
back on-premise. As we look at some other trends around consumerization of
IT and bring your own device, hostile devices entering the network and hostile
people touching the network, our secure network and firewalls really are
connected to a hostile environment, just like the cloud.
Why is identity and access management so critical to data security?
In a lot of ways, identity and access management is the backbone of the
security infrastructure for the enterprise. If we think that the major threat
points in the system are, in fact, the human element, then identity and access
management is really where the system and the humans connect to each
other. If our security value is to mean anything in the hands of people who
aren’t managed properly, then our technology is for naught.
Why did Axway choose to partner with CA Technologies?
We began working with CA Technologies because of a mutual customer, and
our relationship has really blossomed over the past few years. We also chose
CA Technologies because they are a market leader and it’s important to us that
we align ourselves with the best partners in the industry.
If you look at CA Single Sign-On and CA SiteMinder®, CA Technologies is the
market leader bar-none. Our solutions in combination with CA Technologies
products results in a powerful story for our customers. The encryption, the
data security, and the workflow process is provided by Axway software, and
the authorization, identity management, credential life cycle, and the two
factor mechanisms are all under the control of CA Technologies software. Not
only are we a reseller of CA Technologies products, but we actually use the
technology ourselves to run some of our large projects.
More recently, we’ve found ourselves drawn to the CA Technologies vision of
what cloud means. Marketing people love the word, but enterprises are still
trying to figure out what it means to them. I think CA Technologies and Axway
have a well-aligned vision for the cloud, for the cloud, and CA Technologies can
help us realize that vision through our partnership.
But when we think about securing data in the cloud, we know we’re going through
public networks, and so we have to think about defending all of the points of
entry. Where does the data flow? That has to be secured. Who has access? That
has to be secured. Who’s taking back-up tapes? That has to be secured.