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The Containment Platform - How Cloud Native Security Fabric Closes the Architectural Divide
Cloud Native Security Fabric (CNSF) is the architectural answer to fragmented, chokepoint-based cloud security. This whitepaper details how Aviatrix embeds policy enforcement directly into the cloud fabric, delivering default-deny egress across every workload, compute model, and cloud provider. Learn how SmartGroups, intent-based policy, and the Contain-Detect-Eliminate model work together to turn Zero Trust into a measurable, enforceable reality across your cloud environment.
What's inside the whitepaper
What the architectural divide is, and why fragmented, chokepoint-based security consistently fails to protect modern cloud environments
Why traditional perimeter security leaves workload egress, lateral movement, and multi-cloud traffic dangerously uncontrolled
How CNSF embeds policy enforcement directly into the cloud fabric not bolted on at the edge, delivering default-deny egress at the workload level
How SmartGroups dynamically organize workloads by cloud-native identity so policy stays accurate as environments scale and change
How intent-based policy lets security teams define what should happen and enforce it consistently across every cloud, account, and region
How the Contain-Detect-Eliminate model turns Zero Trust from a concept into a measurable, provable, enforceable reality
How to build a cloud security architecture that closes the divide between what security tools promise and what they actually protect
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