INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud
Bring Your Own Encryption’
for securing cloud-based data
While cloud computing, virtualisation, and other enabling technologies
are integral to the Always-On business, it should not detract from the
importance of security; Bring your own encryption (BYOE) could reprioritise
this for decision-makers, writes Gregg Petersen, Regional Director, Middle
East and SAARC at Veeam Software.
B
ring your own encryption, or
BYOE, is a relatively new cloud
computing security model that is
providing companies with a new way to
address data storage security concerns
in a cloud-based environment. Above all,
this new trend is encouraging decision
makers to put security as high on the
agenda for the Always-on business as
other business-critical technologies such
as cloud computing and virtualisation.
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The BYOE security model gives cloud
customers complete control over the
encryption of their data. In essence,
this enables them to use a virtualised
example of their own encryption
software together with the applications
they are hosting in the cloud, to
encrypt their data. At the same time,
cloud providers are finding innovative
ways to let users manage their
encryption keys.
Data sovereignty
Up to now, questions around data
sovereignty drove the majority of
decisions around moving to the cloud.
After all, having corporate data being
subjected to the laws of the country in
which it is located has created additional
challenges for CIOs the globe over.
With BYOE, it does not matter where
organisational data resides as the
company has its own encryption key.
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