FEATURE: CLOUD MANAGEMENT
New challenges in the cloud are completely
different so you need a different
architecture, you need to be building the
cloud and think about it as a new perimeter
in a distributed way. You need to aggregate
data very fast, so you need to think about
a distributed network and get rid of the
concept of updates. When you think about
it in the security space, the minute you
say ‘updates’, you are kept behind. In the
cloud, you have the capability to always
keep the latest state. I always know what is
happening in the wild because if I associate
data from different locations, I can make
faster decisions. For instance, the bad guys
use a lot of techniques, including machines
and robots, in a distributed way and if we
can collaborate and identify them in real
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time, that’s the beauty of the cloud – the
ability to respond almost in real time.
The cloud is used as one holistic solution
and you can leverage the fact that you
are in a different location. The cloud is an
overused term for me – the idea of the cloud
in my opinion is the use of unlimited object
resources. It is not limiting – you can grow
and decline as you need and therefore the
concept of the cloud is elastic.
What are some of the global
trends you see in terms of
user behaviour?
I think this comes down to awareness.
I would also say target audience. When
you use social networking, there are some
countries which are suspicious by nature.
There are countries which are more easy-
going, so I think there are differences in
nationalities. Israel for example is very
suspicious – you need to prove something
before you go there.
That is why a lot of Israel is focused on security
solutions. You are born into that culture as we
are surrounded by a lot of enemies and there
is a lot of pressure to be this way. I think there
are different nationalities which are moving
into that, for example in America, after the
9/11 terror attack took place, there was a big
change in security. In our industry, we see a
huge correlation between physical security
and cybersecurity.
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