Cloud security, data privacy concerns hinder cloud progress

October 31, 2012 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Beth Pariseau.

Chris Weitz, a director at Deloitte Consulting LLP, is charged with leading the financial services consulting company’s team for advisory services in cloud computing. He’s been in this role for five years, and previously held a global consulting position with Deloitte for nine years. Overall, he’s been in the IT business for a little over 30 years.

Thus, cloud computing is hardly the first seismic shift in IT that Weitz has seen. And when it comes to cloud security and data privacy — identified by 49% of the more than 950 people polled recently by Deloitte at its Dbrief event as the most challenging aspect of implementing a hybrid cloud environment — he says the major cloud providers are better at it than most people think…

Of the 950 people polled by Deloitte, 36% listed privacy protection as their top concern. Why do you think that is?

Chris Weitz: Privacy protection is clearly a big concern for people because there are laws in different jurisdictions that govern the use of information, and there are serious consequences if [it’s] not protected properly. In Europe there’s more focus on that with EU [European Union] laws about personal information and personal privacy, which are stricter than other places in the world. The U.S. is not as strict, but there are still definitely regulations and laws that govern the use of information, particularly medical information and personal financial information. So, anybody who is charged with controlling that has to pay particular attention to how they’re going to manage that, especially if the data moves out of the span of their physical control…

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