‘App shaping’ key to securing the cloud on a budget
June 20, 2014
Grazed from SCMagazine. Author: Steve Gold.
Whilst this may seem a misnomer, given the cost advantages that a cloud data centre resource can deliver over its local bricks and mortar counterpart, budgets – even in the corporate cloud – are still under significant pressure. According to Ed Macnair, EMEA MD of Intermedia, the key security issue in his opinion is how to embrace the cloud without losing control of the data.
"Our research suggests that around 56 percent of companies make use of six or more SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications, whilst 76 percent of network intrusions exploit weak and stolen passwords," he told the audience, adding that – just to make life more difficult – the average business user has 25 different passwords they have to remember for internet-based services…
One solution to this security issue in the cloud, he argues, is to use a technology called ‘application shaping’, which effectively gives IT security management granular control over the various features of an app running in the cloud, but without reducing its overall effectiveness…
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