Encryption is the foundation of cloud security
October 30, 2012
Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Jennifer Scott.
Giving customers an element of control when it comes to storing their data in the cloud is the key to gaining their trust and, in turn, their patronage. This is the belief of Trend Micro’s solutions architect, Udo Schneider, who spoke to Computer Weekly at this week’s SNW Europe conference in Frankfurt.
Despite the continued excitement around cloud computing and the growth multiple studies have shown when it comes to adoption, security is still the inhibitor for businesses looking at the technology. “It might be driven by paranoia, but still all the different analysts and conversations with customers show security is still number one,” Udo Schneider said. “Most other problems, I don’t want to say they are solved, but they are addressed…
“Security is still one of the things where, even if there are solutions in the market today – which there are – if you add cloud computing to the equation, they have to be done in a different, efficient way.” Schneider spoke about the ways of protecting data “efficiently,” moving away from per server protection to hypervisor-based security, looking after every virtual machine without taking up resources from each one…
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