Who is Responsible for Cloud Data Security?
“The Buck Stops Here”, said US President Truman. And he made it doubly clear by having that statement inscribed on a thirteen-inch sign on his White House Oval Office desk. But what would he have made of the cloud, where IT engineers, managers and employees can all upload data and trying to pin down one […]
IT Security is Essential in the Cloud – But Which Cloud Do We Mean?
Clouds by definition are nebulous and vague. Their use in IT models and discussions goes back decades, long before the current cloud computing models. A ‘cloud’ was convenient shorthand for showing a link between a system on one side and a terminal or another system on the other. Today however, the concept has evolved. Not […]
Disaster Recovery Services and Multi-Tenancy in the Cloud
Historically, vendor solutions for disaster recovery have been created for on-site use for individual enterprises. The client company concerned was the sole owner of the user data involved, and disaster recovery could be implemented without having to worry about anybody else. The cloud computing model changes that situation. It’s possible to use cloud services to […]
Virtualise All You Want but Business Continuity Must Still Be End-to-End
It started with IT server virtualisation and then continued with cloud computing. Instead of physical machines running a company’s own software applications, we now simply have interfaces to virtual instances of these things. Computing resources are no longer located in a specific piece of equipment on a company’s premises. They are ‘somewhere’ in the cluster […]
Eight Security Questions to Ask a Cloud Vendor Before You Sign Up
Cloud services whether PaaS (platform), SaaS (software), DraaS (disaster recovery) or another ‘as a service’ option are part of the business landscape now. However, in the vast majority of cases, using them means that your data is stored outside your organisation. No matter what the cloud vendor’s reputation, security must be evaluated, confirmed and applied. […]