Cloud-based security will become the norm for both consumers and businesses

Grazed from iHotDesk.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The days of having to install, update and manage single product software for anti-virus protection and security could soon be over thanks to new developments in cloud computing.

John Dunn, security editor of Techworld, believes that security monitoring in real time using a cloud-based system is likely to soon become the norm for both individuals and companies in the not so distant future.

However, he points out that some large online security product manufacturers have been a little slow in working towards producing a suitable cloud-based anti-virus system…

“What we have now is some of the bigger companies like Symantec and McAfee being a little bit slow to adopt this, because they have a lot of money being made by selling people conventional products,” Mr Dunn stated.

“You’re finding it’s the newer, smaller, particularly European companies, like Kaspersky Lab and AVG for example, that are doing it. The larger, more integrated security companies are struggling with this.

“But we’re already seeing it happen – most of the products have an element of this built in, but they need to sell it to people.  It’s more of a business model issue they have right now, but I think at some point it will become the standard model.”

He added that there are a number of advantages to using a cloud-based security system but the main one is the extra level of service that it would provide to the user.

Rather than being prompted by the user when they feel the need to run a virus scan, the new cloud system would keep running remotely in the background and detect attacks in real-time based on what other users have experienced.

His comments came as Wanted Analytics reported that year-on-year there has been a 61 per cent demand for professionals with cloud computing skills by employers in the United States.