Cloud Security Fears Are Overblown

摘要

It may sound like heresy but it's possible to worry a little too much about security in cloud computing environments, speakers at IDC's Cloud Computing Forum said last week. Security is the No. 1 concern cited by IT managers when they think about cloud deployments, followed by performance, availability and the ability to integrate cloud services with in-house IT, according to IDC's research. Keeping data secure is critical, but companies need to be realistic about the level of security they achieve inside their own business, and how that might compare with a cloud provider such as Amazon Web Services or Salesforce.com,speakers said. "A lot of security objections to the cloud are emotional in nature, it's reflexive," said Joseph Tobolski, director for cloud computing at Accenture. "Some people create a list of requirements for security in the cloud that they don't even have for their own data center" That was the experience of Doug Menefee, CIO at Schumacher Group, which provides emergency room management services to hospitals.