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Security Mash-Ups in the Cloud
In the past 90 days, Savvis, Verizon Business Services and SecureWorks launched hosted or cloud-based log management services. Customers do not pay for owning any log management infrastructure, but rather for using it and typically pay monthly on a per-device basis. Security in general and log management specifically lend itself well for a cloud-based model since compliance mandates and new threats continue to evolve and require continuous updating of reports and alerts, in addition to a high level of expertise, often not found in-house. Stephen Northcutt from SANS has made the case for outsourcing Log Analysis here.
But there is one more significant advantage to Security in the Cloud … Security service providers can be (and are) light-years ahead of product vendors when it comes to putting together integrated compliance offerings. Customers typically access cloud-based offerings through a web portal. Using web services, service providers can quickly and easily create compliance mash-ups, for example combining reports from vulnerability scanning services with log management-based user activity reports. Very cool!
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