Know cloud security before you lose your job!

Do not believe that some people say that cloud computing is just a buzzword, destined to be the next failure, is exaggerated industrial technology darling such remarks. Cloud computing has come, and if you don't learn how to protect it, a lot of your work won't be possible in the near future. Think about a COBOL programmer's information security version. As a computer security professional, this is one of the hardest jobs in the world-perhaps not as dangerous as the Alaska crab fisherman or the high-voltage power line, but technically it is the same as the difficulties they face. In the computer world, technology changes so quickly that you have to learn and master something that will be completely updated every two years. and others will only judge you based on what you've done recently. No one cares if you are the "talent" in the fight against macro viruses or if you can unlock the VBScript worm. Your boss cares only about how you behave against 2009 hackers and malware. And not care about anything else. Welcome to the world of cloud computing! While media and industry experts have been trying to figure out whether cloud computing is real and will remain stable, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, IBM and other major competitors in the industry have spent 1 billion of billions of dollars on this. They have huge, distributed data centers that cover an area of acres and are filled with containers of container size to accommodate 1U servers. When a server is broken, they don't even bother to replace it-unless many servers fail, they have to replace the entire container. Weather Report: Security and other storm clouds these major competitors tend to spend millions of to hundreds of millions of dollars on ideas that may be successful, but none of them has paid 1 billion dollars on risky bets. To be sure, companies and governments are moving in the direction of cloud computing. Financial savings are compelling. Make no mistake: if your job is to buy and install hardware for a living, in the next ten years, the number of related jobs will be less. If your job is to manage the system or maintain the network, you will feel the same pressure. From a purely security standpoint, if you want cloud security to be better defined, so that you can help your boss make the right decisions--you want to be beautiful! Like the past 10 years of instant messaging services and social networking sites over the past few years, cloud computing will accelerate in your immediate future, and probably before you're ready. We are still trying to figure out what cloud computing is and how to protect it, which has been adopted. Don't be aware of it. Your company's plans for cloud computing are beginning to communicate with the IT leadership. How fast does senior IT management believe cloud computing will be adopted? What applications-email, word processing, sourcing, etc.-are starting to cloud computing? Will your company have its internal cloud and external cloud presence? Cloud Quiz: How to develop the security strategy for the cloud what you need to do first is develop the company's security strategy for cloud computing. WhatIs it acceptable? What isn't? What is the minimum level of service agreement? What form of authentication is required? How often does a cloud vendor have to back up your data? How long does it take to recover it? Where will your data be stored: in the same country or overseas? Store your data in the same database, the same server, or the same disk array as other people's data? How often does a vendor patch its cloud components? Does the vendor use the Secure development Lifecycle (SDL) during programming? What is the supplier's incident response plan? Will the cloud supplier put everything in writing? What is to be solved? More importantly, how can you independently verify what your supplier says? I can easily come up with another 20 questions, and I believe you have your own concerns. Consult your cloud provider, give you the best management advice, and document your company's agreement on what can be accepted by the cloud provider. Get top managers to sign, so when they're surprised by your new approach to cloud computing, you can ensure that due diligence is done. What will you do when your CEO says you are heading towards the cloud? This is a question of "when" rather than "if". If you're not ready for this, it's better to start now. "51CTO exclusive fast translation, reproduced please specify the author and the source!" "" Editorial recommendations "cloud Security query volume of more than 30 billion to East response Jinshan question Jinshan" real "cloud, point 360" virtual cloud "dead hole? 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