While cloud computing may appeal to various organizations because of its cost-saving measures, efficiency and scalability, every business should be aware of the importance of cloud security. The massive concentration around big data and analytics within this platform may pose an attractive potential to cyber criminals. Attackers who love stealing and safeguarding the cloud will play a big role in the next five to ten years—the period where experts see the ballooning demand for cloud. Taking a step ahead in this issue is a global leader in virtualization, VMware. The company sees security as the biggest threat to cloud.

VMware Senior Manager of Products and Solutions in Asia-Pacific and Japan, Michael Warrilow sheds light about this security dilemma: “Low governance requirements suit the public cloud while other requirements almost always stay in a private cloud setting.

“It’s about the right combination of both which is the only solution that works long term… We are now working on how to get the right kind of bandwidth to allow technologies to enable spiking of workloads that could potentially follow on in a global environment throughout the day.”

Dell knows what VMware is talking about. Just yesterday, Dell SecureWorks inked a deal with Qualys Guard to offer more substantial array of protection to their global customers. The pack includes web application scanning, PCI compliance, policy compliance services and many more. There are also certain vulnerabilities that are still being identified which include easy hackers’ “access” to passwords and cryptographic keys—two basic things utilized to authenticate with Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and its Simple Storage Service (S3).

Simon Crosby of Citrix sees cloud security in another spectrum—a good chance to create a new business that will tackle this problem. The former CTO at Citrix left the company to establish Bromium, a venture that will make use of virtualization to safeguard the cloud. The newly-formed enterprise easily snatched a Series A financial support that provided them with $9.2 million in additional funds.

Staying safe in the cloud is something that everyone, especially consumers, should be aware of. Just like in any other security breach, the recent Android Malware attack and DropBox security falter being good examples, data integrity and confidentiality will be largely jeopardized. This is aside from the fact that everyone’s going crazy over cloud computing—any growing trend within the tech community serves as an opportunity for culprit invasion.