Does Cloud Need A Privacy Police Force?

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Adrian Bridgwater.

Companies in all business verticals are using cloud computing and its hosted virtualized methods for supplying software applications along with data processing power and storage. This basic axiom we know to be true, so what factors are changing? Somewhere around ten years ago it was a case of ‘cloud is a security concern’. Five years ago it was ‘maybe let’s consider cloud for some use cases’.

Now as we close 2014 it is increasingly ‘cloud first’, or ‘born on the cloud’ if you will. This means that applications and data sets are being architected and structured for a hosted virtualized existence from the start. In turn then, this means that a new operational layer has sprung up i.e. firms are exchanging cloud-based information around the world and some of it is sensitive as it comes under the purview of regulatory controls…

The United Nations isn’t overseeing what we all do; the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) is too busy maintaining international peace and security on the ground after all…

Read more from the source @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2014/11/11/does-cloud-need-a-privacy-police-force/