Are cloud companies in denial of risk? -Wall Street Journal (blog)

Risk is one of the key, if not the key, questions for the people of switching to cloud services. Dare to put all my data there? Arik Hesseldahl from our sister site interviews of all things D Drew Bartkiewicz, a former employee of Salesforce.com (described as "already drank deep of the Kool-Aid cloud") who watched this field in great depth.

Mr. Bartkiewicz force share sale to work in the insurance industry, underwriting of insurance policies to technology companies as vice President for cyber and information security risks.

Its history unique work led him to start asking fundamental questions about cloud computing and its business models which should if nothing else to some potential customers of cloud pause and reposition cloud service providers-as diverse the force sales, Amazon Web ServicesAzur Microsoft and the like-to believe in something they rarely speak: risk.

Not to be confused with security. Talk to the Executive of every provider… of clouds and you will quickly discover that cloud providers take security seriously and they mean, because without it, they are out of business.

On the contrary, the question is this: If a cloud catastrophe happens-critical, financially valuable data are raped or exposed or destroyed on a large scale-who financially responsible for the damage caused to the business of the customer? Is the cloud provider, who has agreed to manage the data on the client's account? Is cloud computing or even a kind of use-your-own-risk of thing? The answer is, there is no clear answer. Bartkiewicz believes that the cloud computing industry will have to begin to answer it, and soon.

All things D: clouds are in denial of risk?

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