Intel, McAfee is developing cloud security strategy

May 4, Intel and McAfee executives explained the work they were doing. The job is to provide an enterprise with a way to ensure data security stored in a public or mixed cloud environment. Intel acquired McAfee last year to enhance its security technology.

Jason Waxman, general manager of the Intel Cloud Infrastructure Division, and Cutler, vice president of McAfee Network Security, Greg the ongoing strategy. The strategy is to give IT administrators a better understanding of the security of their cloud workloads.

The epolicy orchestrator (EPO) Security Management Console is ideal for auditing cloud environments. The console has always been the center, and in addition to McAfee's own products, it brings together security information from several vendors.

By using the McAfee EPO platform with Intel trusted execution Technology (TXT) on Intel servers, it is possible to establish a basic set of assurance and trust requirements when understanding the tasks of using VMware's vmotion software to transfer workloads between servers.

Cutler says this is a hardware-based, trustworthy architecture. This technology allows you to define servers as trustworthy and untrustworthy. When used with McAfee's move AV antivirus software in a virtualized environment, it is also possible to understand whether the server has identified problems. In addition, the McAfee Cloud Security platform, which has been launched for some time, enables IT departments to use Access and security policies in the cloud. This platform will be further developed to provide comprehensive assessment, asset control and protection, and broader audit capabilities. Other McAfee products, such as Identity manager and deep defender, will also contribute to the security assessment and protection of this strategy.

The ultimate goal is to provide IT administrators with a way to implement more extensive security checks on virtualized servers and data used in public and mixed clouds.

' We think we have a way to achieve that goal, ' Mr. Brown said. He pointed out that this cloud security platform can ensure the security of data communication between enterprise and cloud. In the future, the goal is to be able to implement a broader security assessment.

When asked if Intel/mcafee's enterprise-cloud security will rely solely on Intel/mcafee products, Cutler replied that Intel's trusted execution technology is also compatible with other solutions. But we like to see best practices for people to use these technologies together. He said the Intel/mcafee Cloud Security strategy related to product support would soon be released. (Compiled/Populus euphratica)

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