Cloud Risk Management
ISACA’s 2010 survey on cloud computing adoption presents some interesting findings. Forty five percent of IT professionals think the risks far outweigh the benefits and only 10 percent of those surveyed said they’d consider moving mission critical applications to the cloud. In a nutshell, ISACA’s statistics and other industry published numbers around cloud adoption indicate that cloud computing is a mainstream choice but definitely not the primary choice.
Google, Microsoft, IBM and all other known and unknown cloud providers offer today’s CIO an array of major cost saving alternatives to the traditional data center and IT department. The temptation to put things on/in the cloud and sit back can be extremely compelling. But like everything that appears too good to be true, cloud computing comes with a set of risks that CIOs and CTOs would do well to recognize before making the plunge.
Our team of qualified experts comprising of Certified professionals from the “Cloud Security Alliance” follow a proven path to:
- Identify who accesses your sensitive data
- Assess the adequacy of the data isolation strategies
- Assess the Regulatory Compliance of your Cloud Provider
- Document the Geographical distribution of the data
- Assess the resilience of the setup to data loss and recovery
- Assess the Disaster Recovery strategy of your Cloud Provider