ISACA sets out five questions directors need to ask about cloud
May 9, 2013
Grazed from CloudPro. Author: James Stirling.
Proper governance procedures are key to successful cloud strategy, organisation claims Information security association ISACA has outlined five questions boards of directors need to ask about cloud governance in order to ensure a successful implementation.
The advice is delivered as part of the organisation’s Cloud Governance: Questions Boards of Directors Need to Ask whitepaper, in which ISACA urges directors to view cloud computing like any other investment and implement proper governance for it…
The association argues that poor cloud governance could lead businesses to incur unnecessary expense, due to services not being turned off once they are no longer needed. It also claims a lack of cloud governance can lead organisations to experience threats to their security or regulatory non-compliance. “The core goal of cloud computing is to turn enterprise computing into a fungible commodity,” the report’s authors claim…
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