Cloud Security Alliance Launches Effort to Tackle Big Data Challenges
September 13, 2012
Grazed from Midsize Insider. Author: Prince B Alo.
Despite the growing success of cloud computing and big data service, they are relatively new factors in the enterprise technology market and thus come with their share of unfolding concerns. For businesses, security and privacy-protection concerns could be as big as return on investments and other cost-related factors.
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a nonprofit partnership of about 100 major tech companies (including Google, Adobe, AT&T, and Fujitsu) appears to be the most active organization working to address these concerns. CSA’s latest cloud focus comes with the launching of its Big Data Working Group (BDWG), led by communications and IT specialist firm Fujitsu Laboratories of America…
BDWG was launched by CSA to research the best practices for security and privacy in big data solutions. Many midsize firms avoid the promising big data arena primarily because of perceived expense and risks. BDWG addresses these concerns by pointing out loopholes in these services for vendors and the best practices for customers, the hope is that many such firms concerned over the risks involved in employing cloud and big data solutions will have some of these concerns alleviated…
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