With the New Year having rolled in, you've probably had your fill of "This is
the year of (pick your technology, fill in the blank)" predictions. After
all, for how many years now have we heard, "This is the year for cloud
computing?"
While there's no doubt that the wave of cloud computing continues to swell,
real-world IT organizations are clearly not as quick to jump aboard as
prognosticators. That's because there are a lot of unknown aspects of the
cloud, and security is chief among them.
Deployment of cloud applications is daunting when you consider the risks of
having applications, infrastructure, IP and private information in the cloud.
While we're still learning how to harness the powers of the cloud, there are
several things we know right off the bat: we must secure cloud servers,
including our applications and data; and we must have cloud security that is ... (more)