Cloud key to future cyber security, says Qualys
November 5, 2015
Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Warwick Ashford.
Netflix, AirBnB and Uber are all pointing the way to the cloud as the future, and that is also true for security, according to Wolfgang Kandek, chief technology officer (CTO) at security firm Qualys. “Most enterprises are facing today’s cyber security challenges with IT architecture that was developed 25 years ago when IT had full control over computing,” he told the RSA Conference 2015 in Abu Dhabi.
However, he said, this has changed completely with the move to employees using their own consumer devices to access enterprise services, systems and data. “This leads to a much bigger attack surface, which we try to address by piling up security technology on security technology. In turn, this has led to a terribly over-loaded enterprise technology stack that is very brittle and bound to fail,” said Kandek…
He believes the way around the current “calamitous situation” is to move to a world where security is enabled by security agents in virtual datacentres, endpoints and apps that will be adapted and optimised for these environments…
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