I am sure that by now you’ve seen/heard a lot of rants about how insecure cloud technologies are, etc. What worries me is that these claims are made by people who have never worked with cloud technologies and therefore have no clue on the subject whatsoever.
All of these claims actually have a common root. It is only logical to think that Gmail perhaps is less secure than your self-hosted email solution, for example. [...]
I asked on LinkedIn what security professionals think about Cloud Security. The answer was as expected. Nobody really knew what I was talking about. How cloud security is any different from web security?
Cloud security is different because the rules of the game are totally different. The recourses involved are totally different. Money is not an issue. I believe that anyone can afford $0.15 per month for 1TB of storage. Networking capabilities are not an issue. [...]
I would like to share a few thoughts on the notion of being in direct control of your environment. This article is a continuation from my previous one and it aims to justify why nowadays individuals and organizations prefer to give away control in order to gain more agility. Needless to say, less control is often equal to less security.
Some of you who have been following the blog may be familiar with some of my other articles on the same topic. [...]
test your web apps with websecurify application security testing runtime