June 27, 2011 — Commentary – Cloud computing is the best thing that has happened to information security in 50 years, because it’s forcing people to address the perimeter issue.
As you move data to the Cloud there are many different challenges. Applications have to be designed differently. Security gets pushed further and further away from perimeter-based approaches. Security threats change when data moves to the Cloud.
Up until the existence of Cloud computing it was acceptable to trust the IT department internally. Now that the IT department is outsourced, all of a sudden people are asking the right questions about IT security. The focus must be on the data itself and not on the perimeter around the data. Cloud computing is forcing IT to ask similar security questions about activities inside the enterprise as well. Read More
