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.