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Cloud Security and Governance: Who's on your cloud?
Cloud Security and Governance: Who's on your cloud?
Cloud Security and Governance: Who's on your cloud?
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Increasingly worried about security and compliance in the Cloud?

The rise of Cloud Computing, with services delivered “in the cloud”, offers businesses incredible power and flexibility. It promises the efficient use of human and financial capital resources, reducing infrastructure and operation costs. It proposes a model of computing that is effective at meeting the demands of business in a rapidly changing environment.

Security and Compliance Issues

One of the most difficult challenges related to Cloud Computing, revolves around the security and compliance issues associated with it. This is a major concern and will continue to be so, with the ever increasing onslaught of regulations impacting security controls. 

This pocket guide explains and highlights some of the key security and compliance issues surrounding Cloud adoption, and provides helpful insight into how they can be addressed.

 

LanguageEnglish
Publisheritgovernance
Release dateOct 21, 2010
ISBN9781849280983
Cloud Security and Governance: Who's on your cloud?
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Sumner Blount

Sumner Blount has been associated with the development and marketing of software products for over 25 years. He has managed the large computer operating system development group at Digital Equipment and Prime Computer, and was Director of Software for Pathway Designs. He later was instrumental in the original conception and development of the DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) technology from the Open Software Foundation, and served as the DCE Program Manager within Digital. He also was the Chairman of the DCE Special Interest Group for five years. More recently, he has held a number of Product Management positions, including management of the Distributed Computing Product Management group at Digital and Senior Product Manager at Netegrity. He came to CA Technologies in 2004, where he has served in the Security and the GRC product marketing groups. He currently is the Director of Security Solutions and focuses primarily on compliance issues. He is the author of several industry journal articles, and has spoken at a number of industry conferences.

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    Cloud Security and Governance - Sumner Blount

    Cloud Security and Governance

    Who’s on your Cloud?

    Cloud Security

    and Governance

    Who’s on your Cloud?

    SUMNER BLOUNT

    ROB ZANELLA

    Every possible effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this book is accurate at the time of going to press, and the publisher and the author cannot accept responsibility for any errors or omissions, however caused. No responsibility for loss or damage occasioned to any person acting, or refraining from action, as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by the publisher or the author.

    Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publisher or, in the case of reprographic reproduction, in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publisher at the following address:

    IT Governance Publishing

    IT Governance Limited

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    Bartholomew’s Walk

    Cambridgeshire Business Park

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    www.itgovernance.co.uk

    © Sumner Blount and Rob Zanella 2010

    The authors have asserted the rights of the author under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the authors of this work.

    First published in the United Kingdom in 2010 by IT Governance Publishing.

    ISBN 978-1-84928-098-3

    FOREWORD

    Shifting paradigms introduce a period of fear, uncertainty and doubt.

    Organizations – as well as individual roles within the organization – find comfort in the old way of doing things, but are challenged to be innovative and leverage new approaches that bring agility, efficiency and effectiveness to enterprise operations. Cloud Computing is one of those paradigm shifts that is showing the power to completely revolutionize how technology delivers value to the business. It is aimed at the rapid provisioning and agility that business demands in its complex, dynamic and distributed business environment. It promises the efficient use of human and financial capital resources, reducing infrastructure and operation costs. It proposes a model of computing that is effective at meeting the requirements and demands of business in an environment that is changing rapidly.

    However, the paradigm shift to Cloud Computing has introduced a major concern: security. How does business take advantage of the wealth of benefits that Cloud Computing promises while avoiding the compromise of confidentiality, integrity and availability of critical business information and processes? Many security officers and managers have dragged their feet and fought tooth and nail against this new paradigm in fear of security compromise. With an onslaught of regulations impacting security controls, this concern has continued to grow.

    Just as an organization can have a secure infrastructure or an insecure infrastructure, the same is true of

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