Resellers CRN spoke to said that data-loss prevention provided by cloud services was inadequate because it lacked features or exposed data to interception in transit. “If it’s a large enterprise that can’t afford to have something leaked you need to enable that on the gateway – it’s the easiest place,” says Distribution Central’s John Labza, technical manager of Firewall Systems.
“All the vendors that we represent have a variety of options for doing that. If you don’t want the information to leave the premises then you’ve already failed” if it is scanned in the cloud.
One of BridgePoint’s enterprise customers decided to drop such a cloud service because it couldn’t offer fine control to buy an .
“The data-loss prevention side of things seems to be a bit limited from a purely outsourced model. It tends to be a little bit light. Whereas the maturity for email is very high it’s not that high,” Smith says.
Security redefined
Whether it is a desire to expand their range, diversify interests or chase higher margin business, security vendors are looking to redefine security as something much broader than keeping the bad guys out.
Labza says a more “English” definition encompasses the provision of everything a business needs to function efficiently and effectively. If a business is using cloud storage for its files and data, then a total security solution would ensure that the business could connect to that cloud storage service from every location it needed to and take into consideration the speed and robustness of the connection.
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