By Cloud Computing SpunjePublished: October 27, 2009Posted in: Cloud Solutions, New Business Wins, Opinions & Explanations, VirtualizationTags: 
Putting more of your infrastructure in the cloud has left you vulnerable to hackers who have redoubled efforts to launch denial-of-service attacks against the likes of Google, Yahoo and other Internet-based service providers. A massive Google outage earlier this year illustrates the kind of disruptions cloud-dependent businesses can suffer.
See also: Google FAIL and the Fog Over Cloud Security
That’s one of the big takeaways from the seventh-annual Global Information Security survey, which CSO and CIO magazines conducted with PricewaterhouseCoopers earlier this year. Some 7,200 business and technology executives worldwide responded from a variety of industries, including government, health care, financial services and retail.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139974/The_Curse_of_Cloud_Security?taxonomyId=
Virtualization and cloud computing let you simplify your physical IT infrastructure and cut overhead costs, but you’ve only just begun to see the security risks involved.
Putting more of your infrastructure in the cloud has left you vulnerable to hackers who have redoubled efforts to launch denial-of-service attacks against the likes of Google, Yahoo and other Internet-based service providers. A massive Google outage earlier this year illustrates the kind of disruptions cloud-dependent businesses can suffer.
See also: Google FAIL and the Fog Over Cloud Security
That’s one of the big takeaways from the seventh-annual Global Information Security survey, which CSO and CIO magazines conducted with PricewaterhouseCoopers earlier this year. Some 7,200 business and technology executives worldwide responded from a variety of industries, including government, health care, financial services and retail.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139974/The_Curse_of_Cloud_Security?taxonomyId=
Virtualization and cloud computing let you simplify your physical IT infrastructure and cut overhead costs, but you’ve only just begun to see the security risks involved.
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