Appoint a cloud purchasing ‘czar’ as business-cloud mediator

Grazed from CSO. Author: David Braue.

Businesses concerned about the security of cloud-computing systems should appoint a ‘cloud purchasing czar’ whose sole responsibility is to evaluate cloud service providers (CSPs) and manage their interactions between business and IT executives, a leading security consultant has advised.

Speaking at the recent CSO Perspectives Roadshow, BRM Holdich director of information security and IT assurance Jo Stewart-Rattray said the czar model – promoted by the likes of Gartner analyst Daryl Plummer – offers the important ability to bring order to what is often a chaotic process of cloud-system purchasing and deployment…

“The czar is an independent arbiter who receives cloud purchase requests, gathers intelligence as to what the business might need,,” she explained, “and then presents back to the IT leaders what the business users need – and any pitfalls there might be. They then allow the business to make the decisions.”…

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