Advice for CIOs on cloud computing risk management

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Kristen Lee.

At SIMposium 2014, the annual CIO event hosted by the Society for Information Management, Stephen Braat of IT service provider CDW gave CIOs some insight into where he and his clients have found points of risk in their cloud operations. Security, privacy and data protection loom large, of course, said Braat, a vice president of cloud and managed solutions at the Vernon Hills, Illinois CDW.

Unfortunately, one of the first missteps CIOs make is to rely on the vendor contract to address their concerns. “If you’re trying to affect those things contractually or after the fact, it’s really too late,” Braat warned. “The biggest mistake any of you can make in cloud computing is assuming it’s made to be well-protected, that it’s made to be secure, and it’s made to be redundant.”…

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