Security – Is it Possible in The Cloud?

If you ask most small business owners what they think about ‘the cloud’ i.e. virtualized or cloud computing, you will get a myriad of responses from early adopters to staunch defenders, naysayers and non-believers alike.

The fact of the matter is no matter how you feel about a cloud computing infrastructure – its Achilles heel has always been security. How can you secure network infrastructure, virtual machines and your end users who access them if everything is shared in a virtualized or public realm?

These concerns are being addressed by the Industry giants such as Microsoft, for example. Microsoft Office 365 is a service offering that brings together cloud versions of their most trusted email, communication and collaboration software like Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online with the familiar Office Professional Plus desktop suite.

To address security concerns, Microsoft is offering the Office 365 service with safeguarded data that is geo-redundant, boasting enterprise-grade reliability and disaster recovery with multiple datacenters and automatic failovers. The physical infrastructure is housed in best-of-breed data centers with SAS 70 and ISO 27001 certifications.

Citrix Systems’ Data Center and Virtualization CTO, Simon Crosby, announced last week that he will be resigning from the organization in order to launch his own company called Bromium (www.bromium.com). The company will focus on leveraging virtualization to deal with cloud computing security. “Unless we solve some of these problems, the whole cloud thing is just a big waste of time for everybody.”

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