Fears of Government Snooping Prevent Cloud Adoption
Cloud security garners even more attention as a recent report from Lieberman Research revealed that almost half of IT professionals were reticent to keep sensitive data in the cloud because of the potential of government intervention. Conducted at the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Congress, the study found that most respondents preferred to retain their most [...]
2012 Cloud Market Maturity Report
When cloud computing broke into the market, it captured the attention of business and technology leaders alike. It came with the expectation of change for many aspects of how technology would be acquired, managed and used. Others argued that cloud computing would be a disruptive technology, altering how enterprises would be able to leverage information [...]
Confidence in the Cloud
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and ISACA have recently released their Cloud Market Maturity report, which outlines the top ten issues regarding enterprise cloud adoption. According to the report, cloud confidence is lowest in government regulation as a driving or securing factor in the market. A Look at the Report The Cloud Market Maturity report [...]
CSA’s STAR
Over the summer of 2011, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced a new initiative, which urged cloud service providers to voluntarily disclose their compliance with CSA-recommended best practices for cloud security. This initiative, known as the Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR), was described by the CSA as “a new initiative to encourage transparency of [...]
Cloud Security Standards
Whether an organization is considering SaaS (software as a service) applications, PaaS (platform as a service) models or IaaS (infrastructure as a service) options, it’s pretty much a given that security and compliance issues will be priority considerations. However, potential cloud service customers do run into trouble trying to determine if the security and audit [...]
