India, March 25 -- Cloud gaming was supposed to provide instant access to games. Just tap the screen, load your title, and play from wherever, whenever. But behind this seamless experience lies a much more challenging reality. Cloud gaming requires security to be delivered in real time rather than after the fact.

This was a key point I learned from speaking with Tomer Hadassi, chief operating officer at Upwind. By its nature, cloud gaming condenses all the modern-day challenges of the cloud into an extremely fast-paced environment. Whether it is compute, player identity, session hijacking, payment processing, or the use of third-party services, everything happens simultaneously, with no breaks for security checks.

Traditional cloud secu...