Symantec Corp., at its Vision Barcelona event today, provided
customers and partners their first look at Symantec O3, a new cloud security platform
designed to protect all enterprise cloud applications and cloud infrastructures.
Symantec O3 combines access control, information protection and compliance
control in a single security solution, allowing enterprise customers to extend
their internal security policies to public and private cloud services.
Cloud computing is one of the most significant IT trends. Enterprise adoption
of SaaS, public or private clouds promises to drive significant cost and
complexity reduction. However, concerns over security, compliance and trust
still represent a significant barrier to adoption. These new cloud platforms are
not inherently insecure but comprehensive security and compliance solutions for
the cloud are still missing.
Symantec O3 will help to fill that void by establishing a new security
control point that applies consistent identity and information security across
all cloud services. Symantec O3 provides three core security layers. The cloud
access control layer leverages an enterprise existing identity infrastructure
for authentication while enabling authorization and federation services. The
information security layer builds on Symantec leading DLP and PGP encryption
technologies to automatically detect, block and encrypt confidential information
before it is stored in the cloud. Moreover, by virtue of being in line with all
cloud traffic, the Symantec O3 visibility layer aggregates all cloud-related
security events, to provide the foundation for a comprehensive cloud audit
solution.
According to a recent Symantec survey, 44 percent of CEOs said they were
cautious about moving business-critical applications to the cloud, with 76
percent citing security as a main concern. Symantec O3 will give
businesses the confidence to more rapidly shift enterprise resources to public
and private clouds.
Availability
Symantec O3 is now in an early access beta program and is scheduled to be
generally available in 2012. For more information, please visit: www.symantec.com/O3