System Architecture

Dome9 Central

Dome9 Central is a secure, cloud-based, firewall management platform. Both the Dome9 Agent and Dome9 Connect, as well as all cloud security policies,  are centrally-managed in Dome9 Central. Administrators can dynamically open and close cloud server (private or public) firewalls using secure access lease and secure access lease invitations.

Dome9 Central offers consolidated management of cloud security policy for servers across multiple platforms. So, for example, if you have cloud servers in both AWS EC2 and Rackspace, you can use Dome9 to centrally manage secure access across your entire multi-vendor, multi-OS cloud infrastructure.

Dome9 Agent

The Dome9 Agent supports both Windows and Linux operating systems. It is a lightweight, yet powerful software agent designed to efficiently manage the cloud server's OS firewalls. The Dome9 Agent securely communicates with Dome9 Central to receive policies and send reports. Agents are paired with a specific Dome9 Central account, and can be placed into logical groups, so a single policy change can be applied across multiple cloud servers.

Dome9 Connect

Dome9 Connect is used to control cloud environments that offer built-in security functionality management through an API. Connect is available for Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 and VPC, where Dome9 Central can be used to manage all cloud security EC2/VPC Security Groups settings.