Improving Cloud Visibility through IT Security
Security concerns form the main reasons for the reluctance among businesses to move to public cloud applications. However, paradoxically, the advanced technologies and protocols that modern cloud service providers offer improved security for the applications. Cloud computing and IT security are often seen as divergent concepts but from a wider perspective, cloud computing technologies actually help propel IT security. With better encryption, better tools and processes the shortcomings and concerns of cloud computing from a security perspective are being addressed. With cloud architectures that are virtualized and automated, infrastructure administrators now have a greater degree of control over the design and deployment of an infrastructure, with little scope for human error. In addition, the wide availability of security tools with very low upfront costs and the distributed nature and fault-tolerant architecture allows the cloud to offer the best security tools and services. C...