Cloud Computing Security Today

| May 22, 2010 | Comments (3)


One of the most heated debates in all of enterprise computing these days centers on the security of cloud computing.

One IT camp argues that cloud computing is inherently more secure because of the ability to invest in all the policies and expertise required to make the overall IT environment secure.

The other camp argues just as vociferously that the centralization of IT into a few cloud computing platforms makes it easier for the bad guys to focus their efforts and that, once breached, hundreds of thousands of records will be as risk because of all the shared infrastructure inherent to the cloud computing model.

Into the midst of this debate comes a new study from the Ponemon Institute that was funded by CA Technologies. The study of 642 IT executives in the U.S and another 283 from Europe, the Middle East and Africa finds that about half of worldwide IT organizations said that no one in their organization evaluates cloud computing providers for security. Worse yet, half said they were pretty sure that no one in their organizations knew about every cloud computing service that end users in their company were storing data on.

Larry Ponemon, chairman of the Ponemon Institute, says the study clearly shows that at the moment the risk factors with cloud computing are high because not all cloud computing providers have the same level of security. In addition, there is no security rating system in place for cloud computing, so business users can’t even rely on third-party security validations.

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About Onuora Amobi: Onuora Amobi is the founder and CEO of Nnigma, a leading online marketing firm headquartered in Pasadena, California. A Microsoft MVP with close to two decades of IT experience, he is also the co-author of the Windows 7 Deployment Guide for small businesses and IT Professionals(http://www.windows7deploymentguide.com). View author profile.

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  • http://intensedebate.com/profiles/janice33rpm janice33rpm

    Great article highlighting the need for everyone to have a much higher computer/data security awareness. I am wary about cloud computing, but not against it. Just recognize that whenever data or process go outside your four walls, you lose control of security: And you'd better be very, very sure someone is picking it up. Check a book we use at work, "I.T. WARS" (you can Google to it, a good part of it is available online at Google Books; Amazon too). It has a great Security chapter, and others that treat security, content management, policy, etc. Highly recommended. Great stuff.

  • http://twitter.com/swgt1 Swagat Barman

    CSO at Zynga & Co-founder of Cloud Security Alliance, Nils Puhlmann will provide an overview of where we are today and what areas of cloud security are actively being worked on in the industry at the third season of Business Technology Summit 2o1o in Bangalore. Further he will discuss about the specific risk and threat areas and how can they be mitigated? What other security efforts are underway in the industry to ensure that security is a key part of every cloud offering? For more information log on to http://www.btsummit.com