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such as financial services companies, and therefore warrant industry- specific frameworks to address their business demands. Service providers need to be familiar with their customers’ industry segments well enough to understand applicable regulatory requirements and to advise clients on how best to comply if necessary.
For example, in the healthcare industry, compliance with government- mandated regulations is critical. Electronic health records must be secure to prevent privacy violations. It is imperative work management platforms for medical imaging - connecting radiologists to hospitals to drive increased efficiencies and cost reductions - are protected from unauthorised access. The financial services and retail sectors are likewise not immune to the call for stronger protection rules. Merchants and bank card issuers must keep customer payment card data and any information that can be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single person secure.
Enabling customer governance policies Although providers don’t set policy, they should advise their customers on the use of cloud services to address the needs of the business, industry segment, or end user. By providing an easily customisable platform that reflects the customer’s business policies and the regulatory mandates of the industry segment in which the customer operates, service providers can differentiate their
offerings. In addition, RSA announced the Cloud Trust Authority at the RSA Conference in February. The Cloud Trust Authority is a set of cloud-based services designed to facilitate secure and compliant relationships among organizations and multiple cloud service providers.
By enabling visibility and control over identities, information, and infrastructure, the RSA Cloud Trust Authority will foster the trust and confidence necessary for organizations to more fully adopt cloud computing for business-critical applications and sensitive information.
The key to success
As service providers address these barriers to adoption for targeted industries and implement customised solutions, they’ll open the door to new revenue opportunities and quickly gain share in the fast- growing cloud services market.
Differentiating their services is paramount through strategic and practical advice and providing an industry-optimised, secure cloud offering. That will be the critical success factor separating the service providers who merely survive from those who will thrive in the increasingly competitive cloud market.
1 Gartner Cloud Computing Innovation Key Initiative, July 2011
As service providers address these barriers to adoption for targeted industries and implement customised solutions, they’ll open the door to new revenue opportunities and quickly gain share in the fast-growing cloud services market
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