Cloud computing is getting a lot of traction in a time of shrinking budgets. Industry experts speaking at NASSCOM 2011 are expecting cloud based services to be roughly a quarter of the outsourcing industry over the next two years. So the business team is ready to move everything to the…
Two recent events serve to highlight the importance of proper due diligence and appropriate contractual protections when dealing with cloud-based and other hosted service providers: A recent white paper from Context Information Security details the results of a study they performed on several cloud service providers that identified numerous vulnerabilities…