Gemalto-CloudEntr Access Security

When more of today' s business are turning onto the cloud, security is becoming one of the major concerns. Cloud-based, business critical applications are becoming very popular, therefore the secure management and control of these applications presents a major issue. Gemalto, a cloud security company has a cloud security application called CloudEntr which claims to resolve existing issues around cloud applications security.  Nowdays anyone within the organisations can easily access any cloud-based applications from the cloud in a very short space of time. But remembering the passwords users use, changing them frequently, forgetting the passwords users have created, writing them down to remember, all these presents a lot of headaches, both for individual users and for the company and  the organisations. Cloud Security applications like CloudEntr is beleived to be the solution for the security protection. Claim is that the passwords of all web applications are securely managed within CloudEntr and cloud based users can access it from anywhere and from any device in the world. "Cloud Identity and Access Management is still an evolving field. While not as established as  on-premise IAM technologies, cloud IAM solutions are in general much easier and faster to  deploy and use than their on-premise counterparts. And companies with existing investments  in enterprise IAM may choose to extend their capabilities to the cloud through integration  with cloud IAM solutions.  "CloudEntr by Gemalto gives businesses a simple and secure way to manage cloud application  access. Using CloudEntr, businesses regain control of their trust networks and cloud  applications, while offering users convenient one-click access for all web applications in a  single interface. CloudEntr reduces complexity while helping businesses operate anywhere,  anytime, and at the right scale. Gemalto’s security and authentication expertise is trusted by  many of the world’s largest financial institutions and governments."  - Quoted from Whitepaper published by Gemalto

Public cloud market growth - HIGH

The global public cloud market is expected to hit $191 billion by 2020, according to a report released today by Forrester Research. That's a 20% jump from Forrester's last forecast, which was released in April, 2011, that predicted the market would be $160 billion by 2020. It's also a big jump from where the market is today -- Forrester says the market stood at $58 billion at the end of 2013. "You need to update your forecast to keep up with reality," said Andrew Bartels, an analyst with Forrester. "Now we have a new set of numbers to work with. One of the key trends behind this is that the cloud is starting to shift from a complement to a replacement for existing technology." Breaking down the public cloud market into segments, Forrester predicts that the global public cloud platform services will hit $44 billion by 2020, the cloud business services should reach $14 billion and the cloud applications, or software-as-a-service (SaaS) market, will hit $131 billion. Read More >>

Sensitive data in the cloud

A Ponemon study of 4,000 users worldwide reveals that organisations are now putting more sensitive data in the cloud. There may be still be factors giving users pause about putting their data in the cloud, but it appears security of even the most common-sense variety is no longer among them. In a stunning display of imprudence, a growing number of organisations around the world -- as revealed in a new large-scale global survey from the Ponemon Institute -- are pushing sensitive or confidential data into the cloud.  And they're doing so with few accompanying protections, and a full awareness that such practices damage their overall security posture. It's a radical reversal of the days of the cloud "scare factor" when concerns about data security, integrity and availability kept many businesses on the cloud computing sidelines. "Staying in control of sensitive or confidential data is paramount for most organisations today and yet our survey shows they are transferring ever more of their most valuable data assets to the cloud," said Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute, which conducted the global study of more than 4,000 organisations. "Many organisations continue to believe that their cloud providers are solely responsible for protecting their sensitive data even though the majority of respondents claim not to know what specific security measures their cloud provider is taking." READ MORE >>