Flexibility stressed for encryption and key management in the cloud
September 5, 2013
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Ellen Messmer.
Virtustream, an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider focused on the enterprise, says the key to meeting demand for encryption in cloud services is to offer lots of options. Virtustream, a Bethesda, Md., company that launched in 2009, has integrated multiple vendor’s products in ways to support encryption of data at rest and in motion between the cloud and the customer’s on premises applications or mobile systems.
Its focus is on customers that often host large-scale ERP applications, and that include the likes of Goodyear Tires, Domino Foods and Kawasaki. One thing Virtustream has learned over time is that integrating encryption for such companies is best done as the “on-boarding” process begins to shift on-premises IT assets to the cloud…
“People rightly perceive certain risks when they’re outsourcing to service providers,” says Pete Nicoletti, chief information security officer for the IaaS provider. The challenge is to show that the IaaS virtual-machine-based data center can be at least as secure as the customer’s data center and preferably more so, he points out. One tool that Virustream uses is Vormetric’s data encryption and key-management software tailored for cloud environments…
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