Cloud Security Alliance highlights cloud security momentum and IoT security

Grazed from CSOOnline. Author: George V. Hulme.

When the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) launched in 2008, the questions around cloud computing centered around whether cloud was secure enough to be trusted, how it could be managed securely and in such a way as to keep regulators happy. There was also plenty of talk about whether cloud would fully displace traditional enterprise data centers.

Today, we know that yes, the public cloud can be secured (reasonably so for many types of data) and that cloud won’t completely displace on premise IT systems any time soon. However, the technologies that power the cloud are transforming those data centers into hybrid architectures that consist of traditional enterprise, private, and public cloud environments that will co-exist for years to come…

Jim Reavis, CSA co-founder and CEO, says that more enterprises are moving away from “very physically-oriented” architectures to more virtualized environments. “Recently, we are seeing a lot of our enterprise members become big container devotees, and they are looking at how do we think very virtually, and how do we excel at software-defined data centers,” Reavis says…

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