What are the reasons for choosing cloud security

With the popularity of cloud computing, the heat of cloud security is also rising. IDC's survey data show that nine out of 10 cloud users are worried about the security of cloud computing. "Cloud security is an inevitable choice for future users," says Michael Sentonas, vice president and chief technology officer for McAfee Asia Pacific. ”

Three reasons to choose cloud Security

Marc Olesen, senior vice President of McAfee Inc. and general manager of the Cloud Security business unit, put the reason for choosing cloud security down to three, saying: "First, the content on the web is exploding." IDC's data predicts that after 10, the digital world will be flooded with 35ZB of data, what is this ZB concept? 1 ZD equals 1 trillion GB. ”

Marc Olesen, senior vice President of McAfee Inc. and general manager of content and cloud security business

Second, Marc Olesen said: "More and more enterprises can begin to have compliance requirements, which makes the security level required by enterprises to upgrade." Finally, security threats are becoming more complex. In addition, the rise of Web2.0 applications and social networking sites has made it old-fashioned to store intellectual property in ' fortresses ' and add a protective façade. ”

"You know, a lot of data exists only in mobile devices," says Marc Olesen. Therefore, the protection of the whole system, has been protected by a good terminal, expanded to the need to protect the contents of the terminal. ”

Michael Sentonas A vivid example to illustrate the problem: "McAfee needs to identify more than 55,000 new malware per day." Breaking this number down means that your system may encounter 38 new threats per minute, and can you let the system upgrade 38 times a minute? So, cloud security is the only option. ”

The power of cloud security

Michael Sentonas said: "McAfee now identifies about 200,000 new zombies a day, and more than 2 million malicious sites are identified each month." And this is not all the users worry about, a considerable number of Chinese users, the mailbox received the mail, more than 95% of the mail is spam. ”

McAfee Asia Pacific Vice president and chief Technology officer Michael Sentonas

Michael Sentonas stressed: "Just last quarter, the US was the first source of SQL injection attacks, followed by China." But by the quarter, China had overtaken America's first position, accounting for 54% of the tracked SQL attacks. It is not difficult to imagine how serious the problem is. ”

Understand the seriousness of the problem, the next question is to find the answer to the question. Michael Sentonas The answer: "We've moved applications including DLP, risk management, web security, email security, IPs, and so on, to share these apps with users." This has actually constituted a cloud security plan, which we call the global threat IntelliSense network. ”

Talking about the power of cloud planning security, Marc Olesen said: "We are the only vendors who focus on documents, mail, and terminals, and our focus is on protecting their IT systems for private cloud users." For users of the public cloud, we check the cloud computing service provider's system every day to make the delivery process of cloud computing services more transparent. This avoids the user's belief that the application is only in a black box, but is concerned about security. What we need to offer is a flexible delivery approach and a unified security management strategy. ”

Just as SaaS replaces traditional software with reduced costs, does the implementation of cloud security bring costs to the class? Michael Sentonas affirmed this and gave us a sum of money: "In the traditional way of protection, later converted to cloud security protection, in the license, Management Services hardware, server maintenance costs, there are huge differences, we calculate the data show that within three years, If the traditional way of protection may cost 900,000 of dollars, the use of cloud security may cost only 430,000 dollars. As a result of this move, the decline in operating expenses has reached 51%. ”

Despite the many benefits of cloud security, Marc Olesen stressed: "At this stage we will give the user the right to choose." "But we believe that in front of the cloud computing tide, more and more users will choose cloud security."