IBM’s suggestions for mid-market cloud security

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Dan Kusnetzky.

I recently reviewed a slide deck IBM shared concerning cloud security and the mid-market. The deck offered a number of recommendations that were designed to help mid-market decision makers think about and implement processes that would help make their uses of cloud computing services safer. All-in-all I thought the suggestions were useful.

IBM’s four recommendations
What was most interesting to me was that IBM was able to boil down the complex industry discussion about cloud security into four simple recommendations. Here they are:

• Determine what you want to put in the cloud
• Spend wisely
• Accept that security is about risk management
• Make the concept of security understandable…

Let’s examine these recommendations one at a time.

Determine what you want to put in the cloud

Cloud computing is really a form of outsourcing. Applications and data are placed in the data center of a cloud services provider rather than in a company’s own data center. Since companies only pay for what they use rather than the entire cost of the real estate, power, communications, systems, software, facilities management and security, this approach appears very attractive in these cost-conscious times. It is wise for mid-market decision makers, however, to think carefully about what data is being placed in the hands of another company and what that company is going to do with that data…

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