O3 –Control in the cloud

By Siân John | March 13, 2012 | 2 Comments 

Siân John

Cloud computing has presented both the biggest hype and promised the biggest business opportunities organisations have had in a long time; certainly in the past few years. Now that businesses better understand the benefits of this new technology, they are increasingly looking to cloud services for the business agility and efficiency they now know it to offer.  You could say, cloud is coming of age and can no longer be ignored.

Likewise the iPad has presented us with the most disruptive piece of hardware technology released in the last ten years. It has driven the explosion of devices adding to the list of business tools that boost employee productivity as well as delivering on the consumerisation promise.   The adoption of mobility is also driving the move to cloud services as more and more information compels companies to consider storing, processing and provisioning workloads in the cloud.

But the growth of multiple device types such as smart phones and tablets at work indicate an increased acceptance of this new reality by management.  The rapid evolution of all these factors however have left information security officers with challenges over how to control the security, risk and compliance across the new platforms.  The traditional security approach of “Just Say No” doesn’t work for this new world where the business wishes to make these steps for valid business and user problems. For this reason we need to find a way to allow information technology and information security to gain more control over this brave new world whilst still allowing for its adoption. Companies at a high level now understand too that a new work order of this kind needs a more encompassing IT support infrastructure.

Taking its lead from the needs of industry, Symantec developed 03 – a new layer of security control for the cloud. It aims to address the issues via a new layer that doesn’t depend upon agents within the device.

Over a series of two View from the Bunker blog’s, I will consider the key objectives of O3 and how by providing and increasing access control, information protection and visibility of traffic to and from the cloud, a layered approach is now required approach.

Check back on March 16th to read my next instalment!

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