The Cloud does not absolve anyone from common sense IT

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: James Bourne.

The difficulties around cloud security may be improving, but users don’t help themselves if they’re not street smart about their IT usage. That’s according to Informatica senior vice president Juan Carlos Soto, who said that cloud computing shouldn’t “absolve anyone from common sense IT”. “Cloud has tremendous benefits around cost savings and agility, and typically it’s not the absolute short term cost – it’s all the other benefits that go along with it,” Soto told CloudTech, adding: “Despite all those benefits, cloud does not absolve anyone from common sense IT good practices.

“For example, even as an individual user, we should back up our data. As an individual user, we should put passwords on our computers should we leave it somewhere. “Some of that common sense is often ignored by persons when they’re using the cloud because the cloud has delivered, I dare say, above expectations [in] security and reliability up to now…

“Every time there’s a failure it gets a lot of press because it surprises people so much…I assure you if there’s an outage at Amazon, there’s an army of people fixing it on the spot.” Security in the cloud still keeps CEOs up at night, of course; the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) released a document last month concerning this year’s top security threats, with data breaches, data loss and account hijacking the biggest risks according to the CSA’s industry experts…

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