Application control

World has seen a lot of changes in the recent past. This is mainly due to the recent advancements in the modern technology. Application control is monitoring software introduced by a leading IT company for transaction process. It is possible to use this only in computers which are operating in OpenVMS systems. Application control monitoring software was first introduced in the year 1980 and was given by Digital Equipment Corporation. Soon after its introduction, it gained popularity in commercial markets very easily. Normally big companies require software to protect their data permanently. The software developed to protect the important data is often called as cloud security. Cloud security often refers to the ways, technologies, policies and controls to protect the data effectively. Cloud security is entirely different from security software. There are several dimensions in cloud security. Some of them are security and privacy, data protection, identity management, physical and personnel security, application security, log and audit trails, business continuity and data recovery, compliance etc. Context aware security is yet another big concern in various companies. A practical security can be achieved easily by the use of contextual information. The level of accountability can be found easily by the log file.