By Cloud Computing SpunjePublished: November 22, 2009Posted in: Opinions & ExplanationsTags: 
A report issued Friday by the European Union’s European Network and Information Security Agency panel gives proponents of secure government cloud computing hope, and some pause. It’s not that authors of the study, Cloud Computing: Benefits, Risks and Recommendations for Information Security, are fickle, but they note the challenges of securing data on the public cloud are complex.
“The key conclusion of this paper is that the cloud’s economies of scale and flexibility are both a friend and a foe from a security point of view. The massive concentrations of resources and data present a more attractive target to attackers, but cloud-based defenses can be more robust, scalable and cost-effective.”
http://blogs.govinfosecurity.com/posts.php?postID=368
The report doesn’t suggest that the most sensitive data be placed on the cloud, but says many e-government applications could be appropriately situated on the public Internet
A report issued Friday by the European Union’s European Network and Information Security Agency panel gives proponents of secure government cloud computing hope, and some pause. It’s not that authors of the study, Cloud Computing: Benefits, Risks and Recommendations for Information Security, are fickle, but they note the challenges of securing data on the public cloud are complex.
“The key conclusion of this paper is that the cloud’s economies of scale and flexibility are both a friend and a foe from a security point of view. The massive concentrations of resources and data present a more attractive target to attackers, but cloud-based defenses can be more robust, scalable and cost-effective.”
http://blogs.govinfosecurity.com/posts.php?postID=368
The report doesn’t suggest that the most sensitive data be placed on the cloud, but says many e-government applications could be appropriately situated on the public Internet
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