On cloud security management, security teams must be trusted advisers
May 31, 2014
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Branden Blevins.
Enterprise information security teams may fear the worst as their organizations implement cloud services, but according to an expert panel, security professionals shouldn’t resist the change and should instead position themselves to manage cloud risk.
Speaking Thursday at the second-annual MassBay Community College Information Security Summit, panelist David Escalante, director of computer security and policy at Boston College (BC), shared a story highlighting the worst-case scenario of what can happen when security teams fail to position themselves as trusted advisors on cloud security management within their organizations…
Escalante said a department at his university independently moved data off premises to a cloud storage provider without seeking the security team’s input. When a university employee left on bad terms, Escalante said the employee logged into the cloud database and deleted its contents…
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