Negotiating the Highway to the Cloud

Dr Dave Ross from Bridge Point presented the following White Paper at CACS 2011.  This white paper presents the considerations and foremost advocacy in virtualisation and cloud computing security, including details of the Cloud Security Alliance’s (CSA) Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK), along with a full update on the Cloud Security Alliance’s Australian activities.

Data centre investment dollars are increasingly moving to virtualisation technologies and the cloud – whether that is an in-house private cloud, external provisions, or a hybrid. This stampede to take advantage of the benefits of virtualisation also comes with its own set of headaches for management and system administrators alike. With many refurbishments and new disaster recovery plans utilising virtualisation and cloud computing, it is now essential to have a comprehensive toolset to assist in the secure design, implementation and provisioning of new virtual environments and the assurance of SPI (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) offerings.