Cloud Computing Security Needed? Symantec Weighs In
November 10, 2012
Grazed from Investor’s Business Daily. Author: Donna Howell.
Clouds will be the new norm, security firm Symantec (SYMC) says. They can make handling data easier and sometimes cheaper. But given that safe use of cloud computing can be sometimes lacking, Symantec — the largest company in IBD’s Computer-Security industry group — this week fleshed out a strategy to develop more protections.
Using resources distributed across the Internet and different networks will become so prevalent that the term "cloud" may go away, predicts Dave Elliott, a senior marketing manager in Symantec’s cloud unit…
But not everyone’s happily on board. A Fujitsu study of cloud users found that 76% had concerns about cloud security. And Elliott notes that in a survey of 2,400 companies last year, half admitted they weren’t ready for the cloud and fewer than one in four had any real experience with it…
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