The customer demand for security is driving some solution providers to offer security products and services, while others are bundling data protection and threat detection offerings as part of cloud migration or big data projects.

Customers with a heightened sensitivity to data security, as they migrate on premise systems to cloud resources, are compelling some solution providers to add security offerings to their portfolio to meet the growing demand.

Read more about cloud security spending.

Solution providers tell IT Best of Breed the right approach is to find security vendors that fit well into your cloud strategy and engineering staff disciplines. It's a process that is becoming increasingly difficult to discern due to the increasing number of pure play or point security products on the market.

Migration projects that once involved simply moving hundreds of servers over to resources supported by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace and other providers, are increasingly combined with security software, automation and managed services, solution providers tell IT Best of Breed.

NEXT: The Many Faces Of Cloud Security