Public Cloud Security: Don’t Believe the Hype

Grazed from VirtualizationReview. Author: Trevor Pott.

A common rationale for using public cloud computing is that security done by professionals will invariably be better than that which is adhered to on-premises. So oft repeated is this mantra that questioning it is akin to blasphemy. Despite this, it is not objectively true that cloud security is better than on-premises security. True believers will react with anything from derision to active attempts at career sabotage for even attempting to discuss this topic. For many, the primacy of the public cloud is unchallengeable, and the argument of superior IT security is one of the pillars of argumentation.

The Arguments

Once you cut through the rhetoric, the security argument really boils down to two factors. The first is that public cloud providers know how to use and configure load balancers and their firewalls. In other words, public cloud providers have decent to good network edge security, whereas a lot of on-premises systems administrators, quite frankly, don’t even know how half the basic elements of the public cloud-provided solutions work…

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