Bruce Ong

Bruce Ong is the product manager for Symantec O3, Symantec's new cloud security platform designed to protect enterprise cloud applications and cloud infrastructures. With VeriSign since 2003 as a product strategist for emerging technologies, Bruce has been involved in many new enterprise security offerings from VeriSign, including email security, two factor authentication and Trust Seal services. 

Prior to joining VeriSign, Bruce was a software engineer at Apple Computer and NeXT Computer, where he was a key developer of WebObjects, world's first object-oriented Web application server that is used to power the iTunes store today.

AusCERT2012 Presentation

The Cloud Security Firewall

Cloud is certainly one of the most impactful trends of modern IT but from a security standpoint, it poses significant challenges. A new approach to cloud security is required to give businesses the confidence to rapidly shift enterprise resources to public and private clouds. Cloud security requires the creation of a new security control point, a "cloud firewall" for IT to apply consistent identity and information security across all cloud services. This cloud security gateway will provide three core security layers. The cloud access control layer leverages an enterprise existing identity infrastructure for authentication to enable Single Sign On (SSO) while enabling authorization and federation services. The information security layer builds on DLP and encryption technologies to automatically detect, block and encrypt confidential information before it is stored in the cloud. Moreover, by virtue of being in line with all cloud traffic, the security gateway aggregates all cloud-related security events, to provide the foundation for a comprehensive cloud audit solution. In this talk, we will provide a thorough technical overview and demonstration of Symantec’s new security approach for the cloud.