Analyst Company KuppingerCole Has Released A New Report On Secure Your Cloud Against Industrial Espionage23 Aug 13 |
KuppingerCole offers advice on protecting your Cloud from industrial espionage with practical advice regarding managing technical risk within a Cloud environment. The analyst group KuppingerCole has published the advisory note “Secure your Cloud against Industrial Espionage”. As Cloud environments become demonstrably more secure and on premise solutions become expensive to protect, there will be a tipping point where it makes sense to keep IP encrypted and protected by strict physical, technical and procedural controls under a third party’s control. The most important means of applying preventative controls in a Cloud environment is encryption of sensitive information. This brings the added requirement of enterprise key management. Encryption and key management is a complex issue which needs proper planning and architectural consideration, but is vital for any project thinking of expansion into the Cloud. In this advisory note Rob Newby, Managing Partner and Analyst at KuppingerCole UK, provides matrixes that support reviewing the current state of IT programs and projects. They provide information about levels, descriptive characteristics of these levels, and information about the technologies involved at the various levels. Highlights of the report include insight into:
The Advisory note “Secure your Cloud against Industrial Espionage” is now available for download from http://www.kuppingercole.com/reports – as are all other KuppingerCole reports. Journalists may request this Advisory Note and all other KuppingerCole analyses and research from KuppingerCole free of charge; please furnish us with specimen copies of any published articles referring to our reports. |