Securing your data in the cloud

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Hamish Barwick.

Public cloud may be able deliver greater agility to enterprises, but it can also complicate the already fraught information security landscape. And according to a Ponemon Institute report issued this month, cloud may mean that when security breaches do happen, the cost could be significantly higher.

However, the cloud needn’t to be a criminal’s paradise if IT managers draw up a contingency plan before placing data into a cloud environment and use a multilayered approach to security. Speaking last month at the Gartner IT Infrastructure Operations and Data Centre Summit in Sydney, the analyst firm’s research director, Michael Warrilow, told delegates that they are not going to get a “perfect risk assessment” when looking at cloud computing…

“In terms of cloud services, it’s around getting what information you can and making the decision. If you wait for the perfect [risk assessment] information, you’ll be waiting forever. The business would have gone past you and purchased cloud services,” he said…

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