Storage Security Design - A Method to Help Embrace Cloud Computing

With many organizations rushing to embrace cloud computing, security professionals seek tools that enable them to guide organizations on their cloud journey.

This Knowledge Sharing article by Ahmed Abdel-Aziz starts with an introduction to cloud computing: the tenets, service models, and deployment models. He goes on to suggest a process that can help answer “Is cloud for me?” and explains the tight relationship between cloud computing, virtualization, and shared storage.

To address the pressing need of data-centric security, Ahmed introduces storage security along with its foundational element of data classification as an important converged discipline. To overcome the data classification challenge, Ahmed proposes an automated approach for data classification that paves the way to adopt technology-neutral and technology-specific best practices for storage security design.

Ahmed concludes his article with a real-world solution that helps apply the suggested best practices, and enables mobility and a “bring your own device” (BYOD) strategy.

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