Box, one of the fastest growing cloud storage firms, has announced it is hiring former Symantec CEO Enrique Salem as a special advisor to help create a new cloud security model.
Aaron Levie, Chief Executive Officer at Box, in a blog post on Tuesday said that Salem, who left Symantec in 2012, will be working closely with the company’s executive team “to innovate and advance a new model for cloud security.”
Levie mentioned that the enterprise sector is facing “a tremendous shift in information security” as due to rapid adoption of smartphones and tablets in the workplace, along with cloud storage to access information.
Protecting data as a result has become a matter of major concern for the corporations who continue to drive adoption of the so-called cloud, where data and computing is handled via remote servers.
“Enterprises are facing a tremendous shift in information security today,” Levie said.
“The proliferation of new devices that are brought in by employees, the global nature of work that ensures collaboration across business boundaries, and the dramatic rise of cloud applications used across an organization all pose new challenges for enterprises in managing their information.”
Thus he said a new approach to traditional security models is needed that will “entrusts users to access their information from anywhere. It’s one whose content policies transcends networks and instead follow the data. And it’s one that allows employees to use the best applications available to them, and not be held back by tired and broken systems.”
http://tabtimes.com/news/ittech-cloud-services/2014/02/25/box-hires-ex-symantec-ceo-help-create-new-model-cloud-security
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/cloud-storage-firm-box-taps-ex-symantec-ceo-for-mobile-security/articleshow/31012018.cms
