Digital Resilience Pays Off
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I recently returned from ISACA’s Information Security and Risk Management Conference in Las Vegas and of the 36 sessions offered on security and compliance, seven were on the topic security and compliance for cloud services. There were several key take-aways that I found interesting:
Some concerns for security and compliance minded folks are:
Just like when buying products over the web first started, establishing trust is the key to wide spread adoption. My conclusion is that ‘Transparency’ on behalf of cloud based service providers is really what’s needed to accelerate adoption of cloud based services (SaaS). Splunk is ideally suited to help with transparency issues. Data tracking can be baked into service offerings using Splunk and a company’s data tagged with identifying information about company, location, business unit, whether the data contains private information, and name of the individual who created the data — a catalog of data ownership. On the receiving end, the service provider provides real-time views into where the company’s data is stored at any given time down to what disk in the data center, who accessed the data on their side (physical and logical access), and follows the life-cycle of the data from acceptance by the service provider to destruction.
The nexus of this ownership and access data allows reporting on where my data is, who’s accessed the data, whether specific private data is in a geo-location it shouldn’t be, knowing about potential data loss, and what compliance it may be subject to.
In short…
Cloud computing SaaS is here to stay and — hopefully — transparency will become a differentiator for service providers.
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