RSA Conference: CloudLock Unveils Trust Assessment Service

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

CloudLock has launched the Community Trust Rating service as part of its Cloud Information Security Suite. The cloud IT security company unveiled the new cloud security offering at RSA Conference 2013. The trust assessment system was designed to use collective intelligence of enterprises that use Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Apps and builds on CloudLock’s Apps Firewall for Google Apps product. The purpose of the system is to help enterprises evaluate third-party applications in determining which apps should be granted access to employee data.

The CloudLock product tries to make things simple by classifying applications as either "trusted" or "banned." The two-way switch is meant to give enterprises more control over which applications to embrace and promote and which are not appropriate for the corporate domain…

"When companies move to cloud platforms, they do so to enjoy greater collaboration and improved productivity while still maintaining the same information security, governance and regulatory requirements of their on-premise systems," said Gil Zimmermann, CEO and co-founder of CloudLock, in a prepared statement. "Cloud security is unlike traditional preventative approaches to security that put obstacles in the path of users. That strategy is fundamentally flawed because employees have shown resourcefulness and outright refusal to abide by security policies that inhibit their productivity. CloudLock enables organizations to build content-aware actionable security practices and policies that govern the use of corporate data as an augmenting security layer that provides insights into employees’ actual usage of the official cloud environment."…

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