Dr. Chenxi Wang is a Principal Analyst with Forrester Research, covering the topics of Cloud Security and Application Security. This blog contains her views on these topics. She cross-posts to Forrester’s Security and Risk team blog, http://blogs.forrester.com/srm/. Prior to Forrester, Dr. Wang was Principal Scientist with KSR, Inc., and Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Wang received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.
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Dr. Wang,
I found the webinar informative, but in an elementary or basic way.
Perhaps you can share your vision of cloud computing when it has matured and moved beyond the current beginnings of a developing technological business model.
Julius. Thank you for your comment, and sorry for the delay in response as I was out of town for a few days. You are right that the webinar focused on some of the elementary topics as cloud computing is still in its early stage. I’d love to have a discussion about what’s it like when the technologies mature. On top of my head, I’d say we can count on the following:
- Security standards for clouds would emerge and stablize.
- Cloud providers would consolidate. So will thirdparty cloud security providers.
- Innovations in cloud security would focus on the virtualization environment.
- The concentration of data (and sensitive data) in a small number of cloud environments will propel the awareness and adoption of application security measures for the cloud.
Hi Dr. Wang
could you please elaborate a little further on your comment on innovations in cloud security would focus on the virtualization environment – in what way do you see this unfolding ?
thanks
John
Looking for up to date security checklist for Cloud Computing. I found one you did yesterday, but I cannot find it again.
Hi. Are you a Forrester client? If so, I can send you the link to the security checklist. It’s likely someone posted online and Forrester had them taken down.
Thanks
I will check on our company’s status on Forrester. (if we ahave a current membership)
Excellent webinar on Cloud Computing Security. Being in healthcare the HIPAA issues are the most prominent; however I do see an opportunity for having test environments with deidentified data making sense from an economy of scale standpoint.
Well written. Opinions on Scott aside… you did a great job helping me picture an event I didn’t attend. The “institution” of Sun Microsystems is true. Seems like yesterday, when I was there ’91-’94. Thanks for helping me reminisce!
Cheers,