What Happens When Cloud Computing Embraces Evolving Antivirus Brands As Security Models?

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: John Omwamba.

Three areas of cloud computing are the crisis points of security breaches. Were it not for Software as a Service (SaaS) programs, there would be no malware. Similarly, but for the openings in the server connections in a network or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), cases of mistrust between proxies would never be an issue. Lastly, were it not for the break in the wall of Platform as a Service (PaaS) as the development platform where hackers can find a field day, there wouldn’t be any security concerns for the cloud community.

Still, the evolving nature of traditional antivirus giants may one day become the saving grace against hardware and cyber crimes that center on mistrust. Though antivirus is like a physical injection, it still qualifies as an all-embracing technology that has legal implications. For example, McAfee, one of the biggest antivirus providers has migrated into the cloud with the aim to certify server networks and a collection of IP sites in a certain domain with particular security details. If the cloud computing providers breach these enforcements, they stand to lose their support by the antivirus companies while their clients may learn that their data stays unguarded…

There are many things that can happen when companies that were purely anti-malware evangelists a few years ago join in the frontline of cloud security. The advent of external monitoring, where the antivirus tool has mandate not on a single PC, but thousands, will keep the security certificates in par with a certain standard. Indeed, it is like bringing the IT department into the cloud—here, any breach will not find a ready culprit in the person of a technician, but in a remote tool that has failed to diagnose a security issue. Perhaps a possible oversight is what has prompted antivirus giants to request network kingpins and server hosts to divulge on ISP certificates and other details of safety installations to help perpetuate collective intelligence…

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