McAfee announced today a vulnerability-assessment scanning service that's aimed at giving cloud computing service providers a way to provide security assurances to their customers.
Called the McAfee Cloud Secure Program, the daily scanning service is directed from the Internet into the cloud service provider to highlight any weaknesses in the network infrastructure, perimeter, and applications.
The McAfee Cloud Secure Program, which is likely to be expanded to include other security services as well, "is intended to give customers more confidence in their cloud providers”.
The charges for McAfee Cloud Secure are based on number of IP addresses, among other factors, and start at less than $5,000 per month.
Cloud providers are entitled to post the McAfee Cloud Secure mark when they've successfully completed daily vulnerability-assessment scans. The program is modelled to some extent after the McAfee Secure Trustmark program for e-commerce Web sites that undergo security scans.