The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released for public comment a draft “roadmap” that is designed to foster federal agencies’ adoption of cloud computing, support the private sector, improve the information available to decision makers and facilitate the continued development of the cloud computing model. n February 2011, the government issued the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy* that describes cloud computing as a “profound economic and technical shift (with) great […]
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The Information Security Forum (ISF) has identified the “seven deadly sins” of cloud computing implementations in a new report, and has offered guidance on how to tackle them. The ‘Securing cloud computing: addressing the seven deadly sins’ report aims to help organisations move quickly to developing business-oriented systems to securing cloud services. The seven deadly sins outlined in the ISF report are: -Ignorance – cloud services have little or no management knowledge or approval -Ambiguity […]