Cloud Computing: Time for a closer look at software security

Grazed from TMCNet. Author: Kathleen Richards.

Virtualization and cloud computing have advanced rapidly despite overarching security concerns. Industry guru and provocateur Chris Hoff predicted a bumpy ride, and some of the vendor and technology fallout, as virtualization deployments spun up — and lowered costs for some companies — but security lagged behind. After two years of research and "solid hands-on collaborative work with networking, security and audit practitioners and managers" at enterprises and service providers worldwide, Hoff delivered a landmark presentation on the issues surrounding virtualization security at the Black Hat conference in 2008 that caught people’s attention.

Five years later, we are thrilled that he is the author of our November cover story, "Virtualization Security Dynamics Get Old," and catching us up on the past, present, and perhaps most importantly, future of virtualization, cloud computing and security. Many of the problems he initially outlined remain, but progress is being made, writes Hoff:..

"Recently, the impact of cloud computing and ‘software-defined everything’ has caused some of the brittle constructs that were preventing the adoption of new security models to start to give way to more agile, automated and integrated security offerings."…

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