Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provides compelling cost and
strategic benefits. These include scalability with reduced capital
expenditure, more efficient use of IT resources, and the ability for an
organization to focus on their enterprise's core competency. Despite fears to
the contrary, many well-established security technologies and procedures can
be applied cloud computing and provide enterprise-class security. In many
cases the cloud vendor may even provide better security in a virtualized
environment than the individual enterprise can achieve in a purely physical
architecture.[1]
The most effective security is a comprehensive, layered defense based on a
framework. A cloud platform can leverage specialized tools to protect the
integrity of virtual machines and Internet communications. Virtualization
creates logical abstraction layers that allow for ... (more)