EMC Corporation unveils solution for cloud security and compliance

CEBU, Philippines – Information infrastructure technology solutions provider EMC Corporation, recently introduced the RSA Solution for Cloud Security and Compliance, for comprehensive security risk management as well as regulatory compliance of cloud infrastructure.

RSA is the Security Division of EMC, and the premier provider of security, risk and compliance management solutions for business acceleration.

It helps the world's leading organizations succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges. These challenges include managing organizational risk, safeguarding mobile access and collaboration, proving compliance, and securing virtual and cloud environments.

"Security is a top concern organizations have about moving critical business applications to the cloud," said Jon Oltsik, Principal Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group.

"Even with all the benefits cloud computing provides, CIOs will continue to be wary until there is a way to manage security and compliance with the same level of assurance that is available today with physical data center environments. With today's announcement, EMC has made an important first step in addressing this fundamental concern with security in today's growing virtualized and cloud infrastructures," he added.

Featuring an easy to use dashboard based on the RSA Archer eGRC platform, the solution is designed to give organizations a complete assessment of security and compliance posture across their VMware virtual infrastructure.

This allows customers to centrally manage security across both virtual and physical infrastructures using RSA Archer.

The RSA Solution for Cloud Security and Compliance helps enable organizations to rationalize a multitude of compliance requirements, control frameworks, standards and best practices into a set of centralized security policies that can be applied to virtual infrastructure.

"Intel is working with VMware and EMC to enable a hardware-based root of trust for the cloud," said Boyd Davis, Intel Vice President & General Manager, Data Center Group Marketing, "We're excited to see RSA taking the first step in delivering products and solutions that support our shared vision."

"Our collaboration with RSA is designed to help customers deploy cloud environments that provide comprehensive security up and down the virtual stack," said Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware.

The RSA Solution for Cloud Security and Compliance and the RSA SecurBook for solution deployment best practices will be available by fourth quarter of this year.

In addition, strategic services from the RSA Security Practice of EMC Consulting can guide customers on the approach best suited to their business and operational objectives.

Cloud computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand.

It is a paradigm-shift following the shift from mainframe to client-server that preceded it in the early 1980s. Details are abstracted from the users who no longer have need of expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure "in the cloud" that supports them. (FREEMAN)