The Marriage of Security and Cloud Computing: Better Security and Good Business Rolled into One

Keywords:cloud computing, file reputation technology, IT management options
Authors:Raimund Genes, CTO of Trend Micro, Inc.
Abstract:
Over the past few years, there has been a massive increase in the volume of unique emerging threats and this is projected to grow at a near-exponential rate over the coming years. It is expected that security protection will need to be aware of over 25,000 new threats per hour by 2015. This represents a new type of threat to customers that can impact server and workstation performance, network bandwidth usage. A new approach to handling this volume of threats is needed that reduces the need for delivery and storage of protection information on local computers. This involves leveraging cloud-client multi-vector reputation technology that will offload the storage of traditional signatures to the cloud. Scalability, High Availability and Privacy are important design criteria of any such solution if larger Enterprises type customers are to deploy.

In this presentation, Trend Micro CTO, Raimund Genes will examine current IT management options for integrating cloud-client file reputation technology into current endpoint security architectures. He will discuss how this transition will lead to the evolution of a smart protection network approach to data security that will provide rapid, real-time security status “look-up” capabilities in the cloud and further reduce the cost and overhead associated with corporate-wide signature deployments. In this way, in-the-cloud Web, email, and file reputation databases receive constant updates enabling companies to quickly respond to and remediate new Web and email threats.