Verizon offers Cloud security
Verizon Business will offer security as a service from eight of its many worldwide IP network data centers. In making the offering, it’s taking a calculated risk that it can convince business users that security, almost always an on-premises and often a hardware-based service, can be offered safely from software in the cloud.
Verizon will have to make a convincing case that its approach is a solid one. After all, in survey after survey, CEOs’ main concern about cloud computing in any form is that it may not be secure.
Juniper CEO Kevin Johnson talks about how traffic is increasing at a faster rate than the number of users and how the model will not scale. He notes the need for new business models and an increase in innovation.
“We’ve been doing cloud-based security for six years,” said Jonathan Nguyen-Duy, security product management director, in an interview. With 237 data centers powering parent company Verizon Communications’ IP network operations around the world, Verizon has experienced massive denial of service attacks and other assaults that might overwhelm average data center defenses.
If a telecommunications leader’s defenses are applied to a business, they will represent a significant upgrade of existing protections, he asserted.
