Last month, The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) published a short security guidance paper with an interesting overview of the top 7 threats to Cloud Computing (version 1.0) - according to their analysis. The paper can be used as a simple guideline for addressing, and perhaps checking off, all the major security concerns associated with implementing cloud computing and its different service modes. This is important especially as people often lack an overview of all the potential security … [Read more...]

It's been maintained by many analysts that the main barriers for a faster public cloud adoption, by organizations in particular, is the lack of sufficient security, reliability and portability (data lock-in). CIO's and IT managers normally cite these as the primary reasons for their reluctance of trusting a third-party cloud provider for storing or processingtheir sensitive, often personalized data. These are however not new concerns born with the notion of cloud computing - but also exist in … [Read more...]