Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s top ten public cloud security risks
October 10, 2014
Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Archana Venkatraman.
Security on the public cloud is one of the most important concerns for CIOs. Microsoft Azure cloud CTO Mark Russinovich identified ten key security risks of public cloud services, including malicious insiders, shared technology, data breaches, artificial intelligence and data loss. He also outlined strategies and best practices for users and service providers to beat these risks.
“We are in the third era of computing – the cloud and mobile era – but security considerations on cloud are still not widely understood. It is important to address the public cloud security concerns to facilitate its adoption,” Russinovich told delegates at the annual IP Expo 2014 in London. “This is important because there is no cloud without trust.”…
Drawing from Cloud Security Alliance’s top nine cloud computing threats, Russinovich listed ten security concerns – listed below – that are typical to public cloud services and explained the measures taken by public cloud service providers, such as Microsoft Azure and AWS, to address those security risks…
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