Posts Tagged ‘security’
05.2.2013
One of the first questions anybody asks about cloud services is, “but is it secure?” Well, the federal defense-level folks are beginning to see serious advantages to adopting a cloud architecture. Do you think the U.S.Navy has stringent concerns about information security? Absolutely — and they’re seeing compelling advantages to adopting cloud computing. Read more on CipherCloud. http://blog.ciphercloud.com/the-department-of-the-navy-turns-to-the-cloud/
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12.19.2011
In deciding whether a cloud service is secure enough for you, you’ll find that you have to decide where you want to be on the scale. On one end is ease-of-access and on the other end is ironclad security. In this post I’ll talk about how security applies to cloud computing, how security in the cloud can help reduce the risk of data leakage, and how to approach a security assessment of your cloud provider.
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09.14.2011
An article at zdnet discusses Eight ways that Cloud Computing will Change Business including “More self-service IT from the business-side” and “more tolerance for innovation and experimentation from businesses.” For many small organizations there are plenty of advantages to offloading some infrastructure woes to a cloud service provider. At the same time, as expected, there are tradeoffs to consider… in this case, security.
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