Week 11 - Cloud Security

Greetings Bloggers!

This is going to be a short week where I just wanted to summarize what I have read through this week and what the topic of discussion has been.  We entered Week 11 in the Cloud Computing and Governance course at Bellevue University.

As more organizations progress to the Cloud Solution, they have to always keep in mind that when they give up all control of their data storage and application performance to the Cloud, they are also giving up the control to have hands on that data and to keep it out of the hands of cyber criminals.

There is a wonderful organization that is called the Cloud Security Alliance, or CSA.  This organization is a global entity that provides training and documentation about Cloud Security to organizations so that they are well informed for their transition.  This is critical for an enterprise to send all of their system administrators to their coveted training so that they are more prepared for the adoption of their data center.  The CSA is on call at all times to take the questions from clients to give them the correct direction.

The one thing that the CSA cannot do is enforce the standards of the Cloud technology itself.  That is the job of another organization that specializes in that enforcement of standards.

As I said a short post this week as we are preparing our final projects!

Take it easy and we will say goodbye next week!