Security Architecture White Paper
Making Cloud Computing Secure for the Enterprise
Many companies are eager to take advantage of cloud computing, but concerns about possible security breaches and loss of data hold them back. Trust—or lack of it—is one of the primary reasons for the hesitancy of enterprises to put their data and applications in a multi-tenant public cloud. Security issues associated with third-party cloud environments continue to prevent organizations from benefiting from the cost savings and flexibility that the cloud can offer.
This paper explores how CloudSwitch overcomes barriers to cloud security by enabling enterprises to run selected applications and data in the cloud with the same protection and control available internally. Once data leaves the physical data center it is isolated at all times as an extension of the enterprise’s security perimeter. The result is a single integrated environment where external resources are provisioned quickly and applications running in the cloud can utilize common resources back in the data center. Enterprises not only know that their applications are secure; they are able to prove it—to customers, regulators, and other stakeholders.
