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Cloud Computing Security

From Mary Brown | May 28th, 2009

I attended a security conference recently, where the consensus seemed to be that cloud computing is here to stay. This is despite the fact that most organizations do not truly understand the implications of storing their data over the Internet on servers outside of their control.  According to ZDNetAsia, the CTO of Sun Microsystems is hoping to create a forum to look into this particular issue.

What has been your experience with storing data out in the cloud?  Do you recommend it, and if so, do you have strategies for mitigating some of the associated risks that you would like to share?

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