Executive Briefing: Cloud and Security (English Language)

Overview

Cloud services are gaining popularity amongst IT users, allowing them to access businesses applications and platforms, storage and even whole chunks of IT infrastructure over a public or private network. As a result, users benefit from lower-cost network infrastructure and data centre resources, and can turn fixed. IT costs into variable operational expenses. However, there is a significant problem with cloud offerings, namely that they present new challenges to IT managers, both in general security within their own enterprises and in assessing the risk profiles inherent in each cloud offering they might source.