4 valuable additions to your cloud security toolkit

DigitalPersona, CloudPassage, NetIQ and GlobalScape deliver unique ways of protecting cloud data.

By Tom Henderson, Network World | Cloud Computing, cloud security, insider Add a new comment

October 14, 2011, 1:02 PM — If you ask IT execs why they're hesitant about moving to the public cloud, security comes up at the top of the list. But security vendors are responding to these concerns with a raft of new products. Here are four interesting cloud security tools that we tested.

Digital Persona's ProWorkgroup SaaS is a cloud security tool that automatically encrypts hard drives on end user PCs and laptops. GlobalScapeMIX delivers a secure FTP service in the cloud.

NetIQ Cloud Security Service provides a secure proxy for logging into SaaS apps, like Google Apps and Salesforce.com. And CloudPassage embeds a security monitoring and policy enforcement tool into online cloud instances.

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Most of DigitalPersona's work has been in bio-authentication — fingerprint readers and their associated security components. But in July, DigitalPersona launched Pro Workgroup SaaS, a cloud security product that provides hard disk encryption for Windows machines.

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Tom Henderson is principal researcher for ExtremeLabs, Inc., of Bloomington Indiana. Thirteen years in research (investigations, investor technical due diligence, product reviews) after sixteen years in corporate America, lastly as VP of Engineering for one of the largest publicly traded interconnects. Technical conference advisory board memberships in InterOp, Networld, COMDEX, SuperComm, and many others. Author/co-author of ten books on software and operating systems. Former vice chair of PBS affiliate WFYI of Indianapolis.

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