Achieving Greater Agility

Posted: April 24th, 2016

By Eric Chiu

Eric Chiu is president and co-founder of HyTrust (www.hytrust.com), the Cloud Security Automation company. He previously served in executive roles at Cemaphore Systems and MailFrontier, and was a Venture Capitalist at Brentwood (now Redpoint) and Pinnacle Ventures.

Access to cloud-based infrastructure has revolutionized how businesses store and work with their data, but the convenience of cloud-based systems is not without risk. The Cipher Brief spoke to Eric Chiu of HyTrust, a cloud cybersecurity company that recently released a report detailing trends in and attitudes towards cloud-based data centers and security automation. According to Chiu, greater automation on the security side is necessary in order to keep up with the agile business environment created by cloud-based data centers.

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Achieving Greater Agility

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