Looking To The Cloud For Data Security
June 21, 2013
Grazed from Forbes. Author: David Strom.
Cloud computing and data storage have quickly become tools of the trade for businesses of all sizes, and now a growing number of service providers have stepped up their game to deliver the next level of data security solutions to their customers via the cloud.
Traditionally data security was about having robust on-premises systems and software maintained by an in-house team. That’s changing. The non-profit industry group Cloud Security Alliance promotes advances in security using traditional models alongside web-based solutions…
Users are reassessing prior assumptions that the cloud is inherently less secure than on-premise data centers. This study of a billion actual threats observed by Alert Logic last fall found cloud-hosted environments are not inherently less secure than enterprise data centers, in fact web-supported systems looked at in the study showed fewer malware and web app attacks than enterprise systems, and about the same number of brute force attacks…
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