The anatomy of fear in cloud computing

One interesting part of Prof. Paschal Chinedu’s lecture was the “Anatomy of Fear” in cloud security. It explains some of the reasons organisations are sometimes afraid of moving their data to the cloud.The concerns include confidentiality, integrity, availability, privacy, increased attack surface, auditability and forensics, as well as legal and trust issues.For me, one of the important points is that organisations may feel they are losing some control when their data is managed by an external cloud provider. This makes trust very important. Before using a cloud service, an organisation should understand how its data will be protected, who can access it and what happens if there is a security incident.Cloud computing has benefits, but these benefits need to be supported by proper security measures.