InformationWeek SMB: Cloud Security Alliance To Tackle Cloud Standards
Cloud computing has much to recommend it but raises all kinds of issues around data security, privacy and best practices. This initiative should help allay concerns.
“Members of the standards body include Novell, Microsoft, Dell, Rackspace, Qualys, HP, Intel, Cisco, McAfee, Salesforce.com, and Symantec.
Novell and the Cloud Security Alliance have announced a vendor-neutral ‘Trusted Cloud Initiative’ for developing standards and certification of cloud security, compliance, identity management and other best practices.
While cloud computing is a popular topic, it lacks a set of well-defined terms and standards that tell prospective users concrete information about the environment they’re about to adopt.”