Trust and Authentication Recognized
as the Cornerstone of Cloud Computing
As IT professionals and enterprises seek ways to meet ever-increasing technological demands, cloud computing has emerged as a serious alternative for their enterprise needs. Cloud computing is revolutionizing the world of IT, transforming computing into an ubiquitous utility, leveraging on attributes such as greater agility, flexibility, storage capacity and redundancy to manage information assets. In a cloud computing model, users access data and applications stored on remote hardware via the Internet.
By separating an enterprise’s IT needs from its own IT infrastructure, cloud computing technologies, with pay-as-you-go type services, can help enterprises meet requirements of lower total cost of ownership, higher return on investment, increased efficiency and dynamic provisioning. However, along with the benefits of cloud computing, there are also risks and IT security concerns associated with trusting information assets to the cloud and accessing these assets over the Internet.
Trust and security are key to a successful cloud computing environment. To fully realize the promise of cloud computing, security-related issues of privacy, authentication, and trust must first be addressed. Cloud environments require basic security measures such as ensuring data confidentiality, integrity, authenticity, access and audit. However because cloud resources are subject to the risks of any shared resource, they require a new approach where security is a fully integrated, yet completely configurable part of the cloud fabric. By integrating security at all contact points and layers, including users, devices and transactions, OpenTrust 4.0 enables customers to secure private cloud services by establishing a truly trusted cloud computing environment.
This solution for effectively securing an enterprise’s network, devices, identities and transactions, creates a trusted ecosystem that enables users to know with certitude with whom or what they are communicating, that protects data from malicious or inadvertent leaks and that provides confidence that transactions are intact. Along with comprehensive and customizable user activity reporting tools, OpenTrust gives customers the secure foundations, and tools to securely and confidently deploy new shared computing models such as cloud computing.