ENISA Highlights Cloud Computing Risks to Critical Infrastructures
February 23, 2013
Grazed from CloudTimes. Author: Saroj Kar.
The European Agency for Network and Information Security Information Security Agency (ENISA) published a report that argues excessive growth of cloud computing is a double-edged risk. But the agency also recognizes the advantages of using the cloud.
Barely a week after the announcement by the European Commission of its plans for a new directive on security of networks and information, ENISA has published a report on the protection of critical infrastructures. Under the proposed new law, ENISA could play a key role in helping Member States of the European Union to share information on security vulnerabilities…
Public data on the uptake of cloud computing shows that in a couple of years around 80 per cent of organizations will be dependent on cloud computing and large cloud providers will be serving tens of millions of end users, the report states. From a CIIP perspective, this concentration of IT resources is a ‘double-edged sword’: on the one hand, large cloud providers can deploy state-of-the-art security and resilience measures and spread the associated costs across the customers. On the other hand, if an outage or a security breach occurs the consequences could be big, affecting a lot of data, many organizations and a large number of citizens at once…
Read more from the source @ http://cloudtimes.org/2013/02/22/enisa-risks-critical-infrastructures/