Cloud computing technology providers are rapidly improving the effectiveness and efficiency of network security, and what we are seeing is just the beginning. If your business is not already taking advantage of cloud-based security solutions, chances are high you will benefit from this emerging market soon.
Similar to the innovations and efficiencies we have seen on the operational side from cloud-only providers (think Amazon, Google, LinkedIn and Salesforce), the cloud security market has become best of breed for, among other things, securing email and protecting against malicious Web traffic; for managing user account provisioning, identification and accesses; for continuously monitoring threat activities and patching vulnerabilities across a geographically dispersed and mobile workforce; for aggregating and analyzing huge volumes of security-related data; and, ultimately, for detecting, containing and mitigating incidents.