Cloud Security Reaches Enterprise Scale for the First Time with PerspecSys PRS

PerspecSys Inc., the creator of enterprise data security and management for cloud computing, today introduced PerspecSys PRS Solution™ 1.5 at the 9th International Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, California. PerspecSys' PRS is the only data security system purpose built for enterprise-wide adoption of cloud computing. Now, for the first time, large organizations can use cloud computing for mission-critical business functions just as corporate finance, human resources and customer relationship management without incurring the security risks of placing their sensitive data in a public, private or hybrid cloud environment.

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PerspecSys' global clients span the financial services, healthcare, defense, retail, and government sectors. Within those industries, PerspecSys PRS Solution 1.5 addresses national and international regulations for keeping data pursuant to this agreement complete control, in Europe and Asia for instance, never exposing it to the expanding risk and regulation surfaces associated with cloud computing. Together, PerspecSys PRS lets clients adopt cloud applications like salesforce.com and Oracle CRM On Demand, during preserving the functionality, performance, and value propositions that attracted them to the cloud.

Terry Woloszyn, founder and chief technical officer, PerspecSys will be speaking about data security in cloud environments at three different venues while Cloud Expo 2012. He said, "The cloud security landscape is growing ever more dangerous - SSL has been compromised, insecure technologies are introduced daily, and furthermore highly sophisticated attacks are directly targeting private and public cloud environments. Enterprise adoption of cloud computing is more challenging than ever. Making cloud mission-critical means bringing cloud application security and control on a par with traditional on-premise computing. PerspecSysPRS is the first to achieve that end after a fashion that can scale across all functions of the corporate and government enterprise."

David Canellos, CEO, PerspecSys said, "Organizations have been asking themselves how to take advantage of the tremendous cost savings and time to market advantages associated with cloud computing. Those benefits are real, nevertheless companies haven't been asking how processing and storing their data in a cloud environment could lock them into an application or cloud service provider. That lock-in may severely limit an organization's flexibility to change business process when they need to, or worse, it could mean they lose control and ownership of their data in every way."

Whenever an organization considers the adoption of a cloud-based enterprise application, the questions of data privacy, residency and security are always raised. Depending on the governing laws of the applicable jurisdiction, answers to the questions often determine to what degree organizations can realize the value of the cloud computing, or if they can even consider it at all.

To make cloud applications mission-critical, the PerspecSys PRS Solution 1.5 adds data security and management functionality to cloud applications that put them on par with in-house, network based applications, namely: