To secure the cloud, keep all your keys in one place

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Larry Warnock.

Cloud computing, big data, and the hybridization of IT environments represent real, seismic shifts in the way organizations leverage technology to provide better customer service, more effectively solve problems, and gain a competitive advantage. But as adoption of these technologies grows, so too does the amount of sensitive data and variety of information objects that require tight management and security.

As companies put more of their IT infrastructures, critical applications, and valuable company data into the cloud, they should be using security measures, such as encryption, tokenization, authorization, and access controls to protect these valuable business assets. These security procedures create an abundance of encryption keys, tokens, certificates, passphrases, and configuration files…

What’s more, the burgeoning use of big data, by which data can be spread across hundreds of servers, magnifies the creation of these operational objects. An organization literally can have tens or hundreds of thousands of security artifacts to store and manage, and the irony is that even the most security-minded companies don’t know where all these objects are…

Read more from the source @ http://www.infoworld.com/t/security/secure-the-cloud-keep-all-your-keys-in-one-place-242465

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