Fujitsu, a leading provider of ICT-based business solutions, has announced that it is setting a new security standard for private and trusted cloud environments.

The company's new security offering consists of a comprehensive standard package of security measures including intrusion detection and prevention, firewalling and secure web server. Customers may also choose to add a further level of impenetrable security and data protection.

According to an independent research report from Forrester Research, entitled Security And The Cloud: “Concerns about security are the most prominent reasons that organisations cite for not adopting cloud services….The advent of secure cloud services will be a disruptive force in the security solutions market.”

In addition, recent research by Fujitsu confirms that an overwhelming 88 per cent of people are worried about who has access to their data. By ensuring that data placed into private, trusted and hybrid cloud environments is as secure as information in companies’ own datacenters, Fujitsu expects the adoption rate of cloud-based services to accelerate.

“As companies start moving more to cloud-based services, so security is increasingly a weak point,” said Andre Kiehne, vice-president Services at Fujitsu Technology Solutions.

“By allowing an intruder easy access to a private cloud, you are effectively presenting them with the keys to your kingdom – which is why we are introducing a new security standard for cloud.”-TradeArabia News Service