Amazon CTO advocates cloud migration for enhanced security

Grazed from ITWeb. Author: Editorial Staff.

The most useful tool offered by a migration to cloud computing for enterprises is security according to Dr Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer at electronic commerce and cloud computing company Amazon. Speaking at the AWS Summit in Cape Town this week, Dr Vogels said it is important to think about how cloud offers ‘superpowers’ to build and operate better – especially by securing information through interventions that include encryption, identity management, compliance and using shields and firewalls, for example, to secure the network.

"I think probably the absolute most important super power in all of this is ‘force field’. That in essence relates to giving you tools (as an enterprise) to protect yourself, to protect your customers in ways that you could never do before. You really have to protect your business and your customers otherwise you don’t have a business, and if you look at the last two to three years, the threats are increasingly advanced. No hacker has ever looked at a website and said ‘oh it has an ISO 27001 stamp, I can’t touch that’…"

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