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Cloud Security Moves to the Forefront

The push to cloud-based computing in general, and multi-cloud computing in particular, has highlighted the vulnerability of the "data" that traverses these hybrid computing environments.  While there is some notion of "shared responsibility" for data security in a cloud computing environment, at the end of the day, it is the ultimate responsibility of the data owner to ensure the integrity and security their data.  Welcome to the frontiers of data-centric security...

That enhanced data encryption in the cloud makes sense began circulating roughly two-and-a-half years ago, when technology and cloud giant Accenture confirmed that it inadvertently left a gigantic store of private data access across four unsecured cloud servers. This exposed highly sensitive passwords and secret decryption keys that could have inflicted considerable damage on the company and its customers.

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cloudsecurity, clouddataencryption