RSA launches Cloud Trust Authority

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The group will facilitate cloud-based security and compliance services

New Delhi: RSA, the security division of EMC has launched the Cloud Trust Authority, a set of cloud-based services designed to facilitate secure and compliant relationships among organizations and cloud service providers.

By enabling visibility and control over identities, information and infrastructure, the RSA Cloud Trust Authority will foster the trust necessary for organizations to adopt cloud computing for mission-critical applications and sensitive information.

To further support and strengthen this requirement, EMC announced the new EMC Cloud Advisory Service with Cloud Optimiser from EMC Consulting, which helps customers create a balanced cloud strategy extending from legacy architectures through cloud service providers at the lowest cost while achieving trust objectives.

"Surveys show that lack of trust in cloud computing is slowing broader adoption of cloud services, said Art Coviello, Executive Chairman, RSA, the Security Division of EMC.

While cloud computing offers tremendous benefits in cost and agility, it breaks down some of the traditional means of ensuring visibility and control of infrastructure and information. Forcing enterprises to develop trusted relationships individually with each cloud service provider they wish to use is cumbersome and will not scale.

New thinking in security and compliance is required to provide a future in which organizations can consume services from a wide variety of cloud service providers on-demand and for all their application needs.

Organisations will be able to manage relationships with cloud service providers via the RSA Cloud Trust Authority console making it easy to configure and deploy cloud-based security services. The system is being architected to greatly streamline the ongoing management of trusted relationships eliminating the need for multiple point-to-point integrations involving custom code with both organizations and service providers.

The RSA Cloud Trust Authority will make it easier for organizations to adopt cloud computing and will give cloud service providers the opportunity to deliver classes of applications that previously would be off-limits due to security or compliance concerns.

"Today, enterprises wanting to leverage one or more cloud service providers have to create secure access methods, establish compliance measurement and data controls and solve a number of other security challenges," said Drew Simonis, Group Information Security Officer, Willis Group Holdings, plc.

The complexity and cost of establishing trusted relationships with each provider erodes the value of cloud computing by slowing down the ability to provision new providers as part of the total IT portfolio. The approach RSA is taking with the RSA Cloud Trust Authority holds promise for changing that by creating an intermediary for hosted security and compliance services and will move the burden of establishing trusted cloud computing from the customer to the cloud."

"The fundamental value of the RSA Cloud Trust Authority approach to services providers is that it helps eliminate a key source of friction slowing down adoption of cloud computingthe requirement to ensure security and compliance across their enterprise IT resources and their outsourced cloud-based resource," said Ken Owens, Vice President of Security and Cloud Technology, Savvis.

"By offering an elegant model for customers to establish trusted relationships with service providers more rapidly, RSAs approach will accelerate the adoption of our services by a wider set of customers for security-sensitive applications."

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