I had the opportunity to write a contributed article featured in SecurityWeek on the topic of email security concerns in the cloud, looking at the milestones we witnessed in 2010 around addressing these security concerns that may set the stage for organizations to take a serious look at migrating their messaging groupware and anti-spam/virus applications to the cloud. Will those key events effect organizations considering a move to the cloud in 2011?
As security remains a top concern among companies considering migrating to the cloud, it’s important to understand two of the most common concerns – data segregation and user access rights. Cloud computing constitutes a shared infrastructure between different businesses. This means secure data may be in the same hard drives as another organization, thus bringing into question the physical and logical separation of information. In addition, while cloud providers access may meet or exceed standards, there is an added threat of malicious or accidental user breaches with the added level of outside employees who could have access to the data.
My contributed column, “Concerns over Email Security in the Cloud – a Thing of the Past?” in SecurityWeek can be viewed here.
It will be interesting to see how the events of 2010 may effect on organizations migrating to the cloud in 2011. Hope you have the time to read the article and as always we look forward to your comments below.
Cloud computing constitutes a shared infrastructure between different businesses. This means secure data may be in the same hard drives as another organization, thus bringing into question the physical and logical separation of information. In addition, while cloud providers access may meet or exceed standards, there is an added threat of malicious or accidental user breaches with the added level of outside employees who could have access to the data.