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Cloud computing security? It's all a bit hazy
RSA Conference: Should you be worried?
By Steve Ranger
Published: 22 April 2009 15:30 BST
Cloud computing might be the hottest tech trend (and certainly the most hyped), but experts are split over whether IT chiefs should be worrying about the security risks behind it.
Speaking at the RSA Conference, Whitfield Diffie, chief security officer at Sun, was enthusiastic about cloud technology, predicting that at some point cloud computing will mean that "no real [programming] will ever be done anymore on the computers of the company that's doing it".
But speaking on the same cryptography panel, Professor Adi Shamir of the Computer Science Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel was less optimistic.
"I'm getting very worried about it," he said, arguing that as we move to a world where the majority of computing power is housed in a small number of datacentres that we could be "facing a real danger that hackers would be able to take one of these datacentres out of commission - and that would have a catastrophic effect".
More to read:
http://software.silicon.com/security/0,390...39422430,00.htm
RSA Conference: Should you be worried?
By Steve Ranger
Published: 22 April 2009 15:30 BST
Cloud computing might be the hottest tech trend (and certainly the most hyped), but experts are split over whether IT chiefs should be worrying about the security risks behind it.
Speaking at the RSA Conference, Whitfield Diffie, chief security officer at Sun, was enthusiastic about cloud technology, predicting that at some point cloud computing will mean that "no real [programming] will ever be done anymore on the computers of the company that's doing it".
But speaking on the same cryptography panel, Professor Adi Shamir of the Computer Science Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel was less optimistic.
"I'm getting very worried about it," he said, arguing that as we move to a world where the majority of computing power is housed in a small number of datacentres that we could be "facing a real danger that hackers would be able to take one of these datacentres out of commission - and that would have a catastrophic effect".
More to read:
http://software.silicon.com/security/0,390...39422430,00.htm