Three trends in the future of cloud security

Users have access to two to three devices per day. If you are an IT worker, there is no doubt that the number will be greater.

While the cloud is developing, the security environment around it is also developing constantly. More and more information is passing through the clouds. Security concerns are also shifted from the original endpoint security to the delivered application, data, and user experience. This shift in focus also allows us to face more problems, both to ensure data security and to provide a good user experience while keeping information intact and open.

How to achieve both the fish and bear, we hope that someone can predict the future, give a perfect answer, but we do not have the ability to predict the future rather than look at our present, the current analysis may be able to see the development direction of cloud security.

Applications and APIs

Apps are the real cloud core, and from the shrinking PC market we can see that using cloud applications via mobile devices is a trend. This also makes the security of the application layer critical. API interfaces, on the other hand, optimize the way applications are connected. This crossover can span the entire data center, enabling applications to reach a new level of resource utilization through the application firewall and the virtual management layer.

Next-generation firewalls (physical and virtual)

Security vendors are developing firewalls that span the entire data center, cloud, and various data nodes. Today we have seen virtual or physical devices running new security engines to achieve higher levels of protection. But it is the development of these next-generation firewalls that makes it necessary to have greater data visibility and security layers. You can also see from the market development, such as Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Fortinet, Cisco and other manufacturers, are trying to build an intelligent framework to connect data centers and information.

Data Security Collaboration

Whether the development of the Times or the changes in the rules, we need to better control the data and ensure security. More importantly, all of this data travels through a variety of clouds and may traverse various networks. So we can look at a variety of ways to control data isolation and data optimization. Recently, for example, omnibus rule changed its HIPAA, allowing it to share files with Cisco and handing over its files to Cisco to handle and protect it in the cloud. This is the future we see, a manifestation of security collaboration.

As with any technology, when it becomes universal, our goals become larger. As the cloud increases, more services will be centered on the cloud. The next generation of security technology will help keep data safe and we have the ability to have more flexibility in the logical part of the data. In the future the cloud will provide us with better security, and we will be wrapped by a variety of new platforms.