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26 Sep 08

In-the-cloud security to grow in economic crisis, Webroot predicts - Security - iTnews Australia


  • In the Asia-Pacific region, the market for SaaS is experiencing a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 44 percent, Heunemann said, compared to a CAGR of 13 percent for on-premise software.

    Webroot estimates in-the-cloud security applications currently to have a market penetration of 8 percent in Australia, 4 percent in Asia and 25 percent in the U.K.

    “The genesis of security technology tends to be in the U.K.,” Eschelbeck said, expecting Australian adoption to reach similar figures ‘before long’.

    In terms of Eschelbeck’s research into the ‘Laws of Vulnerabilities’, the SaaS model could reduce the threat posed by current Web-based malware by narrowing organisations’ window of exposure.
02 Sep 08

Cloud details are too fluffy > Network Access > Access Control > Opinions > SC Magazine Australia/NZ

  • In that report, written by Jay Heiser and Mark Nicolett, nine security risks to evaluate in the offerings of providers are listed: privileged user access; compliance; data location; data segregation; availability; recovery; investigative support; (provider) viability; and support to reducing risk. While Gartner's list is by no means exhaustive, it is nevertheless a good starting point for evaluating cloud computing security.

    For example, the Gartner report states that: “…many cloud-based offerings do not provide service level commitments that are typically needed for critical business processes.”
  • Two other availability risks are also likely to be amplified. Cloud computing is premised on the ubiquity of internet connectivity – particularly wireless connectivity. Depending on where in the world your increasingly mobile workforce is located, ubiquitous internet connectivity might not be a valid assumption.

    And without such connectivity it is even more difficult to be productive without local access to data and cloud-based applications.
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