How Cloud Partners Can Identify (and Plug) Datacenter Security Holes
December 12, 2014
Grazed from RPCMag. Author: Gladys Rama.
As solution delivery increasingly involves cloud-hosted services, solution providers regularly find themselves in the business of taking on new vendors who provide key services from datacenters over which the solution provider has no control. The vendors might be giants such as Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), Google Inc., Rackspace Inc. or Microsoft, with their own massive datacenters.
They might be smaller vendors providing their services from their own purpose-built datacenter. They might be a co-location arrangement with a services provider of any size. Or they may simply be reselling the service of another vendor, abstracting the whole question…
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter because the solution provider is the trusted advisor. Whether the customer’s data was stolen out of a megavendor’s datacenter, a small vendor’s datacenter or a midsize co-lo provider, it was the partner’s recommendation and, therefore, the partner’s fault in the customer’s eyes. How do you assess the risk you’re getting into when going into business with a cloud-based service of any type?…
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