When Brian Lillie is hiring for his security team, the right skills get candidates in the door; the right cultural fit gets one of them the job.
"If you hire the wrong information security leader, they can put security above all else and work can grind to a halt," said Lillie, CIO at Equinix Inc., a Redwood City, Calif., provider of data center space. "They can become the productivity prevention unit, the PPU."
Security is at the forefront at Equinix, which operates 145 data centers on five continents, Lillie said. But in an "innovate or die" business climate, so is helping business users move the company forward -- and for Equinix and many other organizations today, that means giving them access to the power, capacity and flexibility of cloud computing. Cloud innovation thrives, Lillie said, if security is folded into everything the company does.
"I think where you get into trouble is where you make security an afterthought and you make it second to user experience," Lillie said. "There's always a balance between user experience that you get from a beautifully written cloud application and security."
It's a line more and more organizations today have to walk, as business units clamor for cheap, easy-to-install, easy-to-use cloud applications and IT is forced to act as gatekeeper. According to a new report by nonprofit Cloud Security Alliance and cloud security vendor Skyhigh Networks, a "culture of security," often with support from a chief information security officer, or CISO, is needed to ensure a company has vision and vigilance in equal measure.
Read More: http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/4500272074/Cloud-security-culture-a-building-block-for-todays-businesses
"If you hire the wrong information security leader, they can put security above all else and work can grind to a halt," said Lillie, CIO at Equinix Inc., a Redwood City, Calif., provider of data center space. "They can become the productivity prevention unit, the PPU."
Security is at the forefront at Equinix, which operates 145 data centers on five continents, Lillie said. But in an "innovate or die" business climate, so is helping business users move the company forward -- and for Equinix and many other organizations today, that means giving them access to the power, capacity and flexibility of cloud computing. Cloud innovation thrives, Lillie said, if security is folded into everything the company does.
"I think where you get into trouble is where you make security an afterthought and you make it second to user experience," Lillie said. "There's always a balance between user experience that you get from a beautifully written cloud application and security."
It's a line more and more organizations today have to walk, as business units clamor for cheap, easy-to-install, easy-to-use cloud applications and IT is forced to act as gatekeeper. According to a new report by nonprofit Cloud Security Alliance and cloud security vendor Skyhigh Networks, a "culture of security," often with support from a chief information security officer, or CISO, is needed to ensure a company has vision and vigilance in equal measure.
Read More: http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/4500272074/Cloud-security-culture-a-building-block-for-todays-businesses
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