Creating a Road Map for Cloud Security

Moving Into The Cloud? Make Sure You Have a Flight Plan

January 27, 2010 | 12:00 PM EST

Cloud Computing is being touted as the most transformative technology to come along in years. It can dramatically reduce capital costs, it’s readily scalable and it’s accessible -- but it also can be enormously disruptive.

“Overall, our results indicate that there exist tangible dangers when deploying sensitive tasks to third-party compute clouds.”
-- New finding from scientists at MIT and University of California.

“At a high level, cloud computing environments present about as juicy a target as it gets for hackers because they represent a concentration of data from multiple sources.”
-- David Rice, author of Geekonomics and a consultant with the Monterey Group, in Computerworld, July 27, 2009.

Cloud Computing has presents unique challenges that require complete IT security, risk and governance assessments in order to identify and avoid potential vulnerabilities.

Are you up to the challenge?

The Sentry Series presents several of the country’s top Cloud Computing experts – who will help plan the steps you must take to avoid the potential downsides of Cloud Computing and achieve maximum benefits.:

• How to determine where your data is being stored.
• How to determine if your data is properly backed up.
• How to ensure the security of data that’s processed outside the enterprise.
• How to ensure regulatory compliance with data processed outside the enterprise.
• The importance of an audit trail - to pinpoint the source of a security breach.
• Legal and privacy issues.
• Technologies solutions you should consider.
• And much, much more.

Panelists include:

Peter Coffee – Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com
Peter Fingar –Peter Fingar is an internationally recognized expert on business strategy, globalization and business process management. He's a practitioner with over thirty years of hands-on experience at the intersection of business and technology. His book Dot.Cloud was published to wide acclaim in 1009. His new book Enterprise Cloud Computing is targeted for January 2010 publication
Bill Gillis - Director of Clinical Application Services, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

This is just the first in a series of executive Webinars that touch on the most critical issues facing security professionals in 2010.

Get Live and On-Demand Access for 3 months for just $99 Creating a Road Map for Cloud Security January 27, 2010 | 12:00 PM EST