Many industries are rapidly moving toward networked,
scale-out designs with new and varying workloads and data types. Yet,
pick any industry — retail, banking, health care, social networking or
entertainment — and you’ll find security risks and vulnerabilities are
highly problematic, costly and dangerous.
Adam Wick, creator of the The Haskell Lightweight Virtual
Machine (HaLVM) and a research lead at Galois Inc., which counts the
U.S. Department of Defense and
DARPA as clients, says 2015 is already turning out to be a break-out year for security.
“Cloud computing has been a hot topic for several years
now, and we’ve seen a wealth of projects and technologies that take
advantage of the flexibility the cloud offers,” said Wick. “At the same
time though, we’ve seen record-breaking security breach after
record-breaking security breach.”
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