How will you secure The Cloud?

Posted by khess on Nov 30, 2011 5:30 AM EDT
ZDNet Virtualization Blog; By Ken Hess
Mail this story
Print this story

Cloud security raises a lot of hackles (no pun intended). Cloud security is no better or worse than any other but its strength is up to you.

With Cloud adoption on the rise, how will you secure your Cloud-bound data? And, whose responsibility is your data security–the provider’s, yours or a combination? In my opinion, the provider has the ultimate responsibility for network, system and physical security but you have the responsibility for password maintenance, application integrity and data access security. It’s common for customers to blame providers and for providers to blame customers in a compromise situation. No one wants to admit a missed patch or a programming flaw that allowed a hacker to break in and steal data. How will you handle security and your responsibility?

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: Editorial

« Return to the newswire homepage

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.