Cloud computing security ‘should follow best practices’

Businesses that have started to use cloud computing and want to improve their security levels should be able to do so by following the right procedures.

This is the view of Alexandria Hubbard, assistant editor of the Search Cloud Computing website, who explained while there are still lingering concerns about the safety of data stored by a third-party provider, there are steps that can be taken to address this issue.

"There are a lot of best practices and features that will work to protect your data in a real world environment and meet compliance requirements," she said.

Her comments follow recent remarks made by Bryan Cruickshank, a columnist for the CIO website, who said the cloud computing market is continuing to develop and mature at the moment.

The commentator went on to predict that the use of private clouds by enterprises will become more widespread over the course of next year.