IT cloud computing companies and their users have been in the news recently because of the perceived fear of little security in the cloud. From a different perspective, an article from CIO.com talks about how the threat is not as big as people is making it out to be. With the right IT consultants and tech support team behind you, cloud computing should be a safe place. Check out the article below.
The information security concerns that organisations have about cloud computing are no different from the security challenges of existing business models such as outsourcing, according to IT security firm Integralis.
Security concerns are routinely cited by businesses as a barrier to the adoption of cloud computing services, but Garry Sidaway, director of security strategy at Integralis, said that the standard issues such as data protection, data back-up and identity authentication, are still relevant.
“The security challenges of the cloud aren’t new. We understand what we should be doing, and we should not treat cloud as a completely different environment. We understand we need to protect it and there are hard rules and key concepts which we can still apply,” he said.
Sidaway believes that there are two fundamental things that organisations have to do before they start talking to cloud service providers.
“Our first step is to really understand what you have got in your infrastructure today, so you can then decide what to take out [and put into the cloud]. A lot of [organisations] don’t. They’ve got legacy applications, old network infrastructure,” he said.
Go to CIO.com for the rest of the article. Do you believe this article when it talks about not being as fearful as you should? Do you think your IT support team can keep you clear of hackers?
