Cloud Readiness

Cloud computing provides a number of benefits such as lower costs, faster deployment, scaling as needed, a more robust system, and CapEx free computing. However, cloud computing also brings challenges related to data control, security and visibility.

Organizations have limited capability to change the infrastructure in a public cloud environment. Therefore, security conscious organizations must first understand and overcome the cloud computing related challenges within their organization. Virtualization is a great first step towards the journey to the cloud.

Whether you plan to virtualize some of the physical servers or your entire datacenter, the challenges are similar: Data Control, Visibility and Security. Especially, in case your organization is virtualizing thousands of physical servers, this problem is severe. Actively controlling virtual machines requires controlling privileged user and super-admin access, guarding against potential unauthorized copying, overcoming the lack of visibility, mitigating the exposure of raw data, and demonstrating definitive proof of access in compliance audits.

In cases where organizations are planning to move to the cloud eventually to get cloud benefits like flexibility, scalability and cost savings, the problem gets even bigger due to lack of infrastructure control. Not only is your data not within the confines of your datacenter, it is also being managed by the service provider employees. Organizations are still responsible for controlling data access and cloud security. At the end of the day, you are the owner and liable party for keeping your data secure.

SafeNet prepares you to move from a virtual datacenter to the public cloud. The key is understanding that a public cloud is nothing more than renting someone else’s virtual environment. Securing your own virtual datacenter is a dry run to establish standard methods, tools, and policies - including key management – which will carry over into your public cloud deployment strategy.

ProtectV is the industry’s first comprehensive high-assurance solution for securing both virtual infrastructure and data. This gives customers the freedom to migrate to virtual and cloud environments while maintaining full ownership, compliance and control of data.