It came from the cloud! 3 terrors lurking in wait

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

It’s that time of the year again: Ghost shows and monster movies are constantly on TV, there’s plenty of candy in the office, and memos are issued on appropriate costumes for the workplace. I love Halloween.

Not much scares me this time of year — except in the world of cloud computing. In fact, certain developments in cloud computing strike fear in my heart. Be afraid — very afraid — of these three things.

1. The lack of security planning in cloud deployments. You’d think security is at the top of the list for those who deploy systems on public clouds. Sadly, I’ve noticed that security is typically an afterthought, very much like in internal deployments…

When dealing with public clouds, security comes down to understanding the type of data set to be stored and how that data will move in and out of the cloud. Once you have done modeling, selecting the right security technology and approaches is relatively easy. But few people do this fundamental work. As a result, in the cloud deployments that I see, there is either too much or too little security…

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