Cavirin
While data security once meant securing the physical datacenter, the cloud has expanded the IT ecosystem’s perimeter in a literal (but amorphous) way, creating a conundrum: how can you secure something you can’t quite see or measure? While robust solutions for datacenter security and compliance have long since existed, the cloud is still “Wild West” territory. While many vendors say their products address cloud “security,” there seems to be no common definition of the term. Some of these tools fill a specific gap—encryption or vulnerability scanning, for example.