A panel of experts debated the question "Is the cloud
secure". The answer is yes it can be, but the user must remain
involved in the process.
While the key drivers for cloud adoption are flexibility and
scalability, the key concern for users remains data security and
this is borne out again in the Cloud
Industry Forum's latest whitepaper. At the inaugural ITPro/CloudPro Cloud Summit yesterday, a
panel of experts analysed data security issues. The panel was
composed of Rik Ferguson of Trend Micro, Rene Millman of IDC, David
Chalmers of HP and Nigel Beighton of Rackspace.
The panel agreed that the various different cloud computing models
have developed rapidly and cloud offers a secure option. However,
there are dangers from a user perspective. First, cloud is an
unknown quantity for some users and they assume that, because
it's cloud it's insecure. Second, and conversely, some
users seem to leave security to the cloud service provider.
Clearly, a cloud solution can
