October 27th 2011

Researchers find “massive” security flaws in cloud architectures

Very interesting article published by Network World today highlighting the massive security flaws discovered in many cloud architectures.
The full article is here

Moving services to the cloud can save businesses money and can convert capex costs to ongoing opex, however major consideration does need to be given in the critical areas of security of your data, and service availability. The preceding article suggests that the integrated security architectures of some cloud services is not as good as the vendors would like you to think they are.

Barry Hesk