Nicola Brittain, Computing, Wednesday 30 June 2010 at 17:50:00
Cloud service validation is currently "exceptionally difficult"
The problem with cloud services is that there is no British Kitemark Brown, who was speaking at a session entitled In Cloud We Trust at the He said that cloud providers are reluctant to give audit details of their Speaking on the same panel discussion, Iain Bourne, head of data protection When asked what suggestions they would make to the industry around cloud and
establishing rules around data storage, meaning companies have to establish
their own private risk analysis, according to Ron Brown, director of cloud
computing services at
Mitsubishi
UFJ Securities.
Cloud
Computing World Forum at Olympia Conference Centre in London, went on to say
that trying to validate cloud services was exceptionally difficult.
storage set-up partly because of the proprietary nature of their product ?
meaning they would be reluctant to give away commercial details, and perhaps
because they are scared of showing that they are not taking proper precautions.
projects at the ICO, said
end users need to be presented with dos and don'ts around security and cloud
computing. He said: ?We will prosecute companies that don?t secure their data
properly. This has the extraordinary effect of focusing the minds of CIOs.?
security, Bourne said: ?We need a good set of contractual rules around the
provision and purchasing of cloud services. They would detail what is happening
to the information and where it is being kept.?
Full story at http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2265746/cloud-computing-needs-british
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