Encryption Is Cloud Computing Security Savior
I'm beginning to think that fears about cloud security are overblown. The reason: an intellectual framework is already in place for protecting data, applications, and connections. It's called encryption. What's evolving now, and isn't anywhere near fully baked, is a set of agreed-upon implementations and best practices. Today's post talks about some relevant and interesting work from Trend Micro and from IBM (NYSE: IBM).
Along with the leadership we're seeing from Trend Micro and IBM, it's only fair to add that most of the security vendors and cloud-service providers themselves are researching this stuff. (I'll cover those efforts in future posts.) One impediment in writing about cloud security is that people tend to be closed-mouth, because of the seriousness of security, as per the old phrase: "If I tell you, then I'd have to kill you."
