The use of cloud services is growing and along with this growth has come both concerns about security and new ways to protect data.

Webroot Software Inc., an Internet security company that provides software to consumers and businesses, said it has added a way to filter outbound as well as inbound web traffic so that it can detect and block malware such as botnets that have infected computers. "We already have inbound filtering and now we're adding outbound," said Brian Czarny, vice president of solutions marketing at Webroot.

Czarny said that if the cloud-based Webroot service detects malware such as botnet code calling out to get instructions or otherwise perform an activity, it will block that request.

The Webroot service also will notify the systems administrator of the security event via email and the web-based administrative console. In addition, Webroot has introduced the new cloud-based email archiving service that it believes for partners already introducing e-mail security into customer environments. It lets customers store email to be searched and retrieved whether from on-site corporate mail servers or Google Apps.

For more on cloud security:
- see this CIO.com article

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