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Cloud services bring security risks
The shift towards cloud-based services will bring unique and unprecedented security risks for companies, an expert has said.
In a blog for ComputerworldUK, industry commentator Guy Bunker said the issues had to be confronted head on rather than swept under the carpet.
IT professionals and service providers will have to share the burden of ensuring that the potential risks don't manifest in catastrophes for businesses operating in the cloud, Mr Bunker added.
"The data has to be secure, the systems free from viruses and hardened against hackers," he said.
"It has to be backed up and, if critical, the application clustered and the data replicated."
However, the cloud also has numerous benefits, including greater access to more applications and Mr Bunker concluded that if organisations get their security measures in place early they will be able to make the most of the service.
A survey by IDC found 55 per cent of IT executives would find a private cloud more appealing than a public one, while 22 per cent said they were equally appealing.
Posted by Paul Carden
In a blog for ComputerworldUK, industry commentator Guy Bunker said the issues had to be confronted head on rather than swept under the carpet.
IT professionals and service providers will have to share the burden of ensuring that the potential risks don't manifest in catastrophes for businesses operating in the cloud, Mr Bunker added.
"The data has to be secure, the systems free from viruses and hardened against hackers," he said.
"It has to be backed up and, if critical, the application clustered and the data replicated."
However, the cloud also has numerous benefits, including greater access to more applications and Mr Bunker concluded that if organisations get their security measures in place early they will be able to make the most of the service.
A survey by IDC found 55 per cent of IT executives would find a private cloud more appealing than a public one, while 22 per cent said they were equally appealing.
Posted by Paul Carden