EMC announces RSA Cloud Trust Authority

RSA, the security division of EMC, has announced the RSA Cloud Trust Authority, a set of cloud-based services designed to facilitate secure and compliant relationships among organisations and cloud service providers. By enabling visibility and control over identities, information and infrastructure, the RSA Cloud Trust Authority will foster the trust necessary for organisations to adopt cloud computing for mission-critical applications and sensitive information.

To further support and strengthen this requirement, EMC announced the new EMC Cloud Advisory Service with Cloud Optimiser from EMC Consulting, which helps customers create a balanced cloud strategy, extending from legacy architectures through cloud service providers at the lowest cost while achieving trust objectives.

Organisations will be able to manage relationships with cloud service providers via the RSA Cloud Trust Authority console, making it easy to configure and deploy cloud-based security services. The system is being architected to greatly streamline the ongoing management of trusted relationships eliminating the need for multiple point-to-point integrations involving custom code with both organisations and service providers.

The RSA Cloud Trust Authority will make it easier for organisations to adopt cloud computing and will give cloud service providers the opportunity to deliver classes of applications that previously would be off limits due to security or compliance concerns.