Cloud & Telecom Security

Many business units are being drawn into using cloud services by the attractive economics, bypassing IT departments to host their applications and data in the cloud directly. This creates several problems for the IT organizations with reduced internal and external control.

- From RSA Whitepaper “The Role of Security in Trustworthy Cloud Computing”.

Even they are not directly for Cloud services, but there were cases that BUs signed contracts with 3rd providers to host their applications directly, bypassing IT department. Obviously, it’s not good practice from governance perspective. It might be a head-up for CIOs at Cloud time.

If security experts do not fully understand the business, organizational roles, and people in general, they will not make the security sale. Security experts must be educators, which means they must understand human beings outside of their world, because all parties influenced and affected by security (and that’s everybody) need to understand, in a balanced fashion and in terms they understand, what security means to them.

- “Mission-Critical Security Planner”, by Eric Greenberg

In a service economy, knowledge is a critical asset, and Google has more knowledge than anyone in history. In our opinion, anyone who is not taking advantage of Google’s offerings soon will be fighting an inherent disability.

- What Does Google Know?  Gartner