Cloud Computing Security: A New Initiative

Grazed from Midsize Insider.  Author: Marissa Tejada.

Computing best practices for the cloud are at the core of what IT professionals behind the nonprofit organization Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) promote and develop. Most recently, the CSA announced an initiative called the Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) Initiative, which enforces better security architectures for firms that utilize the cloud.

An Initiative against Hackers

The CloudTimes recently covered the details of the SDP Initiative aimed to develop cloud architecture that can be created with trusted entities using end-to-end network IP addresses. In the end, it should open the door to architecting systems that can withstand attacks against applications and network endpoints accessible from the Internet. The SDP uses security such as federation, Secure Assertion Markup Language and Transport Layer Security. According to the initiative, there should be annular connectivity between devices and between users until they are authenticated and authorized…

The article notes that the SDP Initiative is more important than ever given the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) movement, increased machine-to-machine communications and the Internet of Things, which is the increased connectivity of daily-use and industry devices to the Internet. The CSA is enabling various companies to participate in the SDP Initiative by offering royalty-free research publicly…

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