“Many people initially think a cloud is inherently insecure as it is a single point of failure –the cloud goes and all your data goes with it,” says Todd Moore, Vice President of Product Management at SafeNet (www.safenet.com). “However, embedded computer build in redundancy so when they write data to a cloud, they also write it to a disk at the same time. The virtual environment is encrypted and is also stored on a disk.”
“Securing the cloud is simple, as it is about providing assurance,” says Will Keegan, Technical Director, Software Security at LynuxWorks (www.lynuxworks.com). “Users need to feel comfortable that when they log on remotely, every transaction they make will be secure. The complexities of public ISP embedded computer systems are too high to assure that data loss or leakages cannot occur. In a public cloud you have to assume all users are adversaries, and we rely on the ISP to protect other customers from stealing my data.”
