Cloud security is a top concern for customers. Providers must demonstrate sound security practices to protect customer and provider data and mitigate risks. While security requirements are not different in cloud computing, worries can grow due to anonymous interactions and low pricing. Key customer concerns include loss of governance, compliance risks, isolation failures, securing data handling, managing interfaces, and the risk of malicious insiders. Providers must implement measures like isolation mechanisms, access controls, encryption, auditing, and policies to address these concerns.
Appirio recently surveyed 150 executives of large firms they found that security remains the number one concern, at the same time they found 28% of those execs felt that the concerns expressed about security are false and fear related. In another study (right) IBM found that of the fears customers have 77% are afraid they will lose data…