By Sanjay Mehta, senior vice president of Breach Security

Cloud computing is a hot topic at this week’s RSA Security Conference in San Francisco.  The amount of time the conference has designated to discuss, explore and debate the numerous security issues surrounding cloud computing is proof positive that more business – and supporting technologies – are taking place in the cloud.

But as more business technologies utilize cloud computing, new opportunities have emerged for hackers and cyber criminals to exploit vulnerabilities and profit from business applications using outdated security solutions for protection.  In short, the evolution of business technologies using cloud computing means that security solutions must follow suit – now.

Rapidly changing security needs require the benefits and advantages that Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud computing provides.  Security providers that don’t leverage cloud technology are quickly becoming antiquated as all technology – business and security – moves into the cloud.

Using SaaS or cloud computing provides security technology with distinct technological advantages, such as making security updates and code changes instantly available to clients.  In addition, new security technology needs to be developed specifically for the protection of business conducted in the cloud.  The technology landscape has changed and security needs to keep up by including cloud security needs and requirements at the forefront of the development process.

Breach Security is working with partners, such as Akamai, to provide web application security in the cloud.  For example, when deployed with Akamai’s Web Application Firewall service, Breach’s WebDefend Global Event Manager is the first web application security management solution to defend against global application security threats by enabling customers to make distributed cloud and data center defense-in-depth architectures operational.

Breach and Akamai are guarding their clients against security threats in the cloud.  Are you protected?

Sanjay Mehta has more than a decade of experience driving revenue growth and strategic business opportunities at Internet security and technology companies. As Senior Vice President, he is responsible for overseeing Breach Security’s go-to-market strategy, expanding the company’s channel and maintaining and growing its existing customer base.