Micro-Segmentation on the Rise for Cloud Security

19 Feb 2016  By Tara Seals
 
The rise in cloud computing and services has meant that organizations have embraced an on-demand infrastructure that enables technical resources to be delivered in an easily consumed and cost-efficient model. Unsurprisingly, software-based approaches to security are also on the rise, which are a better fit than traditional hardware-centric solutions to secure multi-cloud environments.

Results from a security-as-a-service survey by ESG and vArmour show that the top three most desired cloud security attributes are: extensibility (across private and public clouds); scalability (to match cloud resources) and infrastructure agnosticism (independence from underlying IT infrastructure).
 
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