five cloud security tips
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Survey after survey continues to find that security is chief among the challenges with cloud computing. In fact, fewer than half of security and compliance officers feel that they have the technology they need to secure their cloud deployments! Cloud management platforms can play a pivotal role in cloud security by centralizing the orchestration, governance and deployment of cloud applications, platforms and infrastructure across hybrid clouds. However, the Agility Platform stands alone in its ability to offer a policy-based governance and security model that directly and specifically helps Global 2000 enterprises effectively manage cloud workload security.TRANSCRIPT
Five Critical Ways to Improve Security Posture Across Clouds
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The Cloud Security Challenge
Fewer than half of security and compliance officers feel that they have the technology they need to secure their cloud deployments!
Cloud management platforms can play a pivotal role in cloud security by centralizing the orchestration, governance and deployment of cloud applications, platforms and infrastructure across hybrid clouds.
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Cloud Security Tip Number 1:
Policy-based application and data
governance is achieved through policies that
can dictate which application workload
may be placed in which cloud. These
governance policies can extend to include user access controls
and provisioning constraints.
Policy
Policy
Policy
Policy
Governance/Security
Roles
Rights & Permissions
Projects Orgs
Network
Infrastructure
Compute Storage
Applications & Platforms
OS
Agents/Utilities
Middleware
App Config.
Data
Code Dev Policies Ops Policies
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Cloud Security Tip Number 2:
Automate installation and configuration of security technologies
including industry standards such as host
intrusion-detection systems (HIDS), anti-
virus, firewalls, vulnerability
assessment and patch management.
For IT, concerns regarding security (66%), integration
stability and reliability (47%) and ability of cloud
computing solutions to meet enterprise/industry
standards (35%) challenge adoption.
- IDG Enterprise Cloud Computing: Key Trends and Future Effects Report
2013
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Cloud Security Tip Number 3:
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OS & Platforms
Agents/Utilities
Governance
Code
Plan Develop Test Release Operate
Code Code
OS & Platforms
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Be sure your cloud management platform integrates with configuration management solutions such as Puppet and Chef to ensure configuration compliance to policy.
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Cloud Security Tip Number 4:
Cloud-based VMs running firewall policies can easily be configured and enforced with a cloud management platform– both in private and public cloud environments.
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Cloud Security Tip Number 5:
Cloud management platform policies can trigger security and vulnerability scans of VMs to ensure continuous security across cloud workloads.
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