Secure Multi-Tenancy for Private, Public, and Hybrid Clouds

Abstract

It seems as if every business and IT executive that we talk to lately literally has their “head in the clouds.” Every conversation about current or impending strategies for information assets almost universally contains some mention of a public, private, or hybrid cloud deployment. A more interesting observation of these conversations is that the lure of liberating ourselves from the burden of managing applications and data shouldn’t mean we stop having high expectations about how those applications and data are managed.

“As organizations adopt cloud services, the human element takes on an even more profound importance. It is critical therefore that consumers of cloud services understand what providers are doing to detect and defend against the malicious insider threat.” —Cloud Security Alliance, Top Threats to Cloud Computing V1.0