Network & Security for cloud
Full stack network security managed for you.
Integrated network security, connectivity, and performance cloud for technical evaluators and performance-sensitive operators who know that latency and exposure aren’t just technical problems, they’re business ones.
Security and networking gaps compound quietly until they don’t.
When they surface, remediation, downtime, and exposure tend to arrive at the same time.
stack perimeter
Attacks target every layer of the stack, not just the edge
Perimeter-only security leaves the application layer, server environments, and endpoints exposed. Threats that get past the border find nothing stopping them on the way in.
audit evidence
PCI-DSS and HIPAA require recurring evidence that doesn’t manage itself.
Recurring scans, remediation documentation, and compliance reporting don’t happen automatically. Without a managed process, audit prep becomes a recurring disruption rather than a baseline state.
remote exposure
Distributed teams and environments create gaps just by doing their jobs.
Without private networking and encrypted connection, every remote access point and cross-environment connection is a potential exposure. The attack surface grows with the team.
latency risks
Traffic spikes increase latency and risk downtime when it matters most.
Single servers and poorly distributed infrastructure don’t absorb traffic spikes gracefully. The moments that drive the most traffic are also the moments your business can least afford an outage.
outage discovery
Most organizations find the gap during an actual outage.
Traffic management and DDoS mitigation strategies that haven’t been tested under real conditions reveal their limitations at the worst possible time. Attacks often peak during the moments when false positives cost you the most.
One conversation. The right security and networking stack for your environment.
Your solution architect will draw from options including
Asset caching, web acceleration, and traffic offloading that reduce latency and cost as your user base grows globally, minimizing the load on your origin infrastructure.
Web Application Firewall (WAF), bot management, API protection, and application DDoS protection, managed continuously so threats are stopped before they reach your applications.
Cloud firewall and next-gen firewall mitigate a broad spectrum of network and application threats. Managed rulesets and audit logs maintained by Nexcess engineers.
Always-on Layer 3, 4 and 7 DDoS protection that absorb attacks at every level, from volumetric floods to application-layer threats before they reach your infrastructure. Available as Advanced or Account-Wide.
Private networks, VLANs, VPN, network segmentation, and network access controls. PHI and CDE segmentation built in for regulated workloads. Secure, isolated, and audit-defensible.
TLS/SSL certificate management, public key infrastructure (PKI), and encryption at rest. Customizable TLS configuration for your security posture and compliance needs. The encryption layer your compliance framework requires, in place by default.
Global anycast DNS, network and application load balancing, and redundant infrastructure designed so no single failure takes production offline. Availability that holds under pressure, not just normal conditions.
Continuous infrastructure monitoring with logging and SIEM integration, supported by people who understand regulated environments. Incident management, QSA assistance, and dedicated account management included.
network & security
cloud hosting
sites & stores
compliance & management
Network & security wraps around everything else on the platform.
It’s the layer that ensures the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your business applications at scale.
Network & Security sits across the entire platform stack. The firewalls, connectivity, and data protection it provides aren’t isolated to this page, they extend to every workload running on Cloud Hosting, every application in Sites & Stores, and every environment governed by Compliance & Management. When this layer is right, the rest of the platform can operate without exposure.
FAQs
Network security protects the network perimeter, controlling what traffic reaches your infrastructure. Server-level security through continuous infrastructure monitoring protects individual environments from threats that get past the perimeter. Both are part of the Network & Security stack because neither is sufficient on its own.
Always-on layer 3, 4, and 7 protections monitor traffic continuously and absorb volumetric and application-layer attacks designed to flood your infrastructure. Protection runs whether or not your team is watching.
Network Security covers the network perimeter through cloud and next-generation firewalls, controlling what traffic enters and exits your infrastructure. Web Application & API Protection operates at the application layer, providing deep inspection, mitigating malicious requests, blocking bots, and protecting APIs before they reach your application. A complete security posture requires both.
Protected health information and cardholder data environments are isolated at the network layer through managed VLANs and network access controls. That isolation is documented and audit-defensible, which is what HIPAA and PCI-DSS auditors require.
Nexcess supports the latest TLS 1.3 protocol as well as highly customizable ciphers, including perfect forward secrecy (PFS) required by compliance frameworks, and encryption at rest. Encryption isn’t something your team configures. It’s part of the environment.
Continuous infrastructure monitoring provides a real-time view of your security and network posture. Evidence collection is automated, audit trails are logged continuously, and PCI and HIPAA framework mappings are built in. When something needs action, Nexcess is already watching.
Nexcess can assist directly. That includes QSA support, auditor assistance, and review preparation. You don’t have to represent the infrastructure layer yourself.
Yes. Private networking, managed VPN, and network access controls are designed to connect infrastructure environments, offices, and distributed teams securely. Your solutions architect will design the right connectivity model for your environment.
Global anycast DNS, load balancing, and redundant infrastructure are configured so no single failure takes production offline. Traffic is distributed across multiple nodes and fails over automatically so your application stays available under load and through infrastructure events.
Ready to stop managing security and networking as separate problems?
Tell us what you’re protecting, we’ll show you what the right configuration looks like.