What can debunk the preconceived notion that cloud environment increases risk and vulnerability?
Heiser: The next frontier in cloud security and compliance will be to create transparency at the bottom-most layers of the cloud by developing the standards, tools and linkages to monitor and prove that the cloud’s physical and virtual machines are actually performing as they should. Verifying what’s happening at the foundational levels of the cloud is important for the simple reason that if organizations can’t trust the safety of their computing infrastructure and the security of all the data, software and services running on top of that infrastructure falls into doubt. There’s currently not an easy way for organizations to monitor actual conditions and operating states within the hardware, hypervisors and virtual machines comprising their clouds. At those depths, we actually go dark. Security challenges will be addressed as the service providers come up with more secure platforms. It’s going to be an evolutionary change. It’s not going to happen overnight. Disruption happens slower t
