Is your trust in cloud services misplaced or true? Find out with a cloud trust rating

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Linda Musthaler.

In June 2013, David Linthicum wrote in InfoWorld, “The journey to the cloud has moved from Interest and study to experimentation, and now it is moving to true production. In the next few years, we’ll see the accelerating adoption of cloud computing, though perhaps with less hype.” Linthicum asserts that this acceleration will in large part be due to the trust that enterprises are willing to place on cloud services.

But where does that trust come from? Is it simply because, as Linthicum wrote, “data has resided in the cloud for years without huge security breaches” and “businesses have figured that out”? That hardly seems like a good reason to place trust in a cloud service or application where an enterprise’s data will live…

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) reminds us that cloud computing does indeed have the potential for threat that can be detrimental to enterprise data security. The CSA annually releases a report on the top threats to cloud computing. Some of the potential threats the CSA cited in its 2013 report include denial of service, account or service traffic hijacking, and abuse of cloud services…

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