Trust and verify: Managing the cloud abroad and at home

Grazed from GCN. Author: Kevin Fiftal and Steve Orrin.

Federal IT professionals used to be able to depend on keeping their information safe in secure on-premise data centers, but times have changed. Traditional data centers could be depended upon for consistent control, visibility and security, but today’s cloud-based centers offer new variants of those capabilities – a fact that IT administrators struggle with every day.

This is particularly problematic for those managing two adjuncts of today’s cloud-driven environment: geographically dispersed servers and emerging OpenStack deployments. Both pose their own unique challenges, including the need for assurance that systems are adhering to location-specific laws and security concerns in general…

Employing trusted computing can help overcome these challenges. Through trusted computing, administrators can verify the trust of the virtual infrastructure, identify the location of servers and audit for compliance with federal mandates. They can also gain better visibility into and understanding of their OpenStack deployments…

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