The cloud is here to stay, says Stephen Coty, chief security evangelist for Alert Logic. The variety of attacks which are in existence and are a threat to companies in the cloud has increased this year to rival that of on-premise data centres. Make sure you determine whether the cloud service provider business with can answer the following questions with confidence: What is their data encryption strategy and how is it implemented? What is the hypervisor and provider infrastructure patching schedule? How do you isolate and safeguard my data from other customers?”]
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