Part of the appeal of hosting infrastructure in the cloud is avoiding the need to obtain and secure it locally.  On the other hand, one of the biggest concerns facing organizations evaluating the cloud for mission critical applications is security; specifically controlling access to sensitive data.   This is especially relevant when considering multitenant public cloud [...]

Many approaches to multitenant cloud-based security involve securely routing and segregating one tenant’s data from another’s. This is one element of a complete data protection plan, but it is dangerous to rely solely on “fortress mentality” when it comes to data security. A complete solution needs to incorporate encryption of data in motion and at [...]