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Cloud Computing Security
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Cloud Computing Security

by John R. Vacca
September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
518 pages
23h 19m
English
CRC Press
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Foreword

I ONCE ASKED AN IT EXECUTIVE OF A LARGE TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY, if he had secured all of the thousands of computers that the company had? He replied: “I will when I find them.” That was over 25 years ago. But it may now equally depict efforts to secure computing assets in the cloud, just as it did back then when computers were in dozens of buildings spread across the Midwest states.

Cloud computing provides a new level of convenience and ease of use. In many cases, favorable cost structures can also be realized. However, many cloud users have lost sight of the fundamentals of managing information technology assets. Thus, the out-of-sight, out-of-mind mentality that an organization can easily fall into when managing cloud assets can ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781315354927