How Cloud Security Helps Create Cloud Agility
October 25, 2013
Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Bill Kleyman.
It was bound to happen. The increase in cloud computing and cloud utilization has also increased the amount of targets for malicious attacks. As more organizations move towards cloud computing – there will be extra security measures that will have to be taken into consideration. There are more devices, a lot more users, and all of this result in more data being pushed through the data center and the cloud.
As cloud computing continues to gain ground, new models and platforms will require new ways to secure a growing infrastructure. Here’s the good news: New security platforms are being designed to help facilitate cloud growth, not hinder it. Next-generation security is evolving to directly support cloud computing. To help with this heavy lifting, security organizations need to adapt their technologies to the workloads of the cloud…
Whether through secure means of WAN optimization or creating new types of cloud security services, the ultimate idea is always to empower the cloud. With that in mind, new types of security platforms are able to create even greater cloud agility as more data can be delivered via a cloud model…
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