GRC Information Security - Governance, Risk Manager and Compliance Management

Joe McKendrick, ContributorThe Amazon Web Services outage last March was a lesson that businesses should always have a backup. The cloud actually makes backup easier, and represents [...]Joe McKendrick, ContributorThanks. Sun seemed to have the vision long before others — even the tagline ‘the network is the computer,’ used in the 1990s, was ahead of its time.

As the use of QR codes becomes increasingly widespread, users should be aware that they are also becoming an easy way for malware peddlers to spread their malicious wares.

Someday, cloud security vendors and cloud services providers will convince enterprise IT that it's safe to move sensitive data and mission critical apps from the private cloud to the public cloud.

Unfortunately, that day has not yet arrived.

Security practitioners, consultants and analysts interviewed for this story say cloud security vendors and cloud services providers have a long way to go before enterprise customers will be able to find a comfort zone in the public cloud, or even in a public/private hybrid deployment.

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