Increased Security with Intel

Despite the significant growth in usage of public cloud services, IT and business leaders still consider security their main concern. Leading cloud providers have gone a long way to alleviate these concerns, and some platforms have security controls that go beyond what is available in most enterprise data centers. Among the important solutions to reach the cloud is Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel TXT), which provides an extra level of protection down to the chip level. In this section, we look at the advantages of using a cloud service that supports Intel TXT, with a separate focus on how geolocation tagging can improve security and compliance.

How Geolocation Tagging Can Strengthen Cloud Security and Compliance

As cloud usage is rapidly expanding, many organizations are poised to move more of their mission-critical applications into the cloud in order to save money and drive agility. Forbes has called mission-critical applications “cloud’s next big wave,” and research indicates that nearly two-thirds of all workloads will be processed in cloud data centers by 2017. Continue Reading

Taking the Next Step Forward in Cloud Security: Integrity Down to the Processor Level

We are heading into a new era of cloud computing. The testing phase is over, and IT and business leaders are increasingly turning over their mission-critical and revenue-generating applications to the cloud. Continue Reading