Cloud Security Myths: Busted

Grazed from SysCon Media.  Author: Gilad Parann-Nissany.

In a Feb 2014 survey, 94 percent of organizations surveyed reported running applications or experimenting with infrastructure-as-a-service.   According to research firm Nasumi, there is over one exabyte currently stored in the cloud. An exabyte is over a billion GB.  Considering the amount of data in the cloud and the growing rate of adoption for sensitive use cases, it is natural that securing our data in the cloud is a concern.

But, cloud security, though rightfully a central concern, should not be a hindrance to aggressively moving workloads and applications to the cloud.  In fact, there are some misconceptions about cloud security that need to be laid to rest…


Myth #1: A cloud provider’s customers can attack each other

The multi-tenant environment of cloud computing has given rise to a misconception that the provider’s many customers can access each other’s data and accounts with little effort. This is tantamount to saying that your neighbors can break into your home easier than a thief from across town…

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