CloudPassage adds important security functions to virtualized environments

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Linda Musthaler.

Even after a decade of cloud computing, many organizations are still struggling over the issue of cloud security. The issue is especially acute when it comes to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Developers love the aspects of the cloud that free them from limitations and delays — things like elastic compute capability, self-service and broad network access. On the other hand, network security teams have difficulty keeping pace with lots of servers that can come and go at the developers’ will.

The tools that security experts use in the data center don’t fit well in the cloud’s virtualized infrastructure. The traditional tools were built with some kind of perimeter and segmentation in mind, and that simply doesn’t apply when your servers can come and go with the ebb and flow of your application needs…

For example, a few weeks ago I wrote about an identity and access management system for the public schools of the state of North Carolina. As hundreds of thousands of students login to their online accounts at about the same time each day, the cloud infrastructure fires up new servers on the fly to handle the massive influx of users that need to be authenticated. Once that’s done, typically within an hour’s time, many of those servers are released until they are needed the next day…

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