Securing Cloud and Mobility

4Segmentation and the Private Cloud

4.1 Physical and Logical Segmentation

The benefits and hype around cloud computing could compel your business and IT executives to revamp your existing environment. Your security posture is probably a mishmash of standards and controls due to organic growth and neglect over the years. The move to private cloud may be an opportunity for rearchitecting your security framework from the ground up.

Ironically, the physical layer is fundamental to designing a sound virtual environment. From a security perspective, you have to consider how you want to physically segment your network. Cloud computing pushes the economy of scale, and that is typically achieved by setting up a single virtual cluster for all your ...