Cloud Security Policies
It is becoming increasingly common for organizations to move their data to the cloud. Cloud storage provides a great deal of convenience, and from a disaster recovery perspective, is extremely resilient. However, cloud storage is not without some security risks. Before we discuss cloud security policies, some basics on how clouds function will be necessary.
The term cloud computing was popularized when Amazon.com released Elastic Compute Cloud in 2006. Cloud computing uses servers distributed geographically. In some cases, the servers are in other countries. In February 2010, Microsoft released the Microsoft Azure cloud service. Amazon and Apple also provide cloud services for the general public. There are four general ...
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