I had the privilege of authoring a piece about cloud computing security for Computer Technology Review that was published as an exclusive cover story this week.

The piece is titled, Do clouds mean a stormy future, and begins as follows:

The use of the word cloud as a metaphor for computing services that are accessed via the Internet may be more apropos than originally intended. Depending on their configuration, clouds in nature can presage a range of meteorological events from benign, to threatening or even devastating weather with unforeseen consequences and damages. Arguably, cloud computing offers an equally challenging array of possibilities from a security perspective.

Still, there can be little doubt that for the foreseeable future clouds will remain predominant in the forecast for our information based society. Consequently, with the growing emphasis on moving enterprise IT systems toward cloud systems, the inevitable security questions arise.

For the entire article, see Do clouds mean a stormy future.