Cloud Security Alliance UK Chapter

By Dr. Wendy Ng - DevSecOps Security Advisor for Experian A collaboration between Experian and CSA UK Chapter     We are on the cusp of being a quarter of a way through the 21st century and you need to decide. Public or private cloud? But, what do these terms actually mean? Let me help walk you through and hopefully by the end of the article you will have a better idea (or at least you will feel welcomed into the 21st cloud century).  Gartner predicts an exponential growth of cloud services, reaching $370 billion (which is about £200 billion in the UK) by 2020.  Source: Gigabit magazine Early concerns on security implications, of multi-tenanted systems, have essentially been dissipated by improved understanding of responsibility boundaries and controls to achieve company and industry-specific regulatory compliance requirements.  Just about every organisation worth their salt from all sectors; public, private or non-profit, will have had, or is undergoing, large ...

By Dimitri Yates It is widely accepted that cloud computing offers benefits such as agility, flexibility and scale. There is also a shift in the financial model from capex to opex. In order to maximise the benefits offered by the cloud, as well as leverage and properly manage the financial model, changes are required across the organisation, particularly in larger organisations. Changes and plans for changes must be made for the organisational structures and processes (people and processes) as well as the technology which the organisation wishes to migrate into the cloud. Practical experience and challenges observed in large cloud migration projects show that many organisations did not anticipate and were not ready for challenges such as  Impact of the changes to the political climate and organisational structure; Preparing for the necessary changes in organisation behaviour, culture and ways of working Upskilling, training and employee communication. These are non-technical issues...