Trust and Transparency Continue to be Important for Cloud Customers
By Adrienne Hall, General Manager, Trustworthy Computing
The second annual Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) EMEA Congress was held last month in Edinburgh, Scotland, where several hundred business leaders and security professionals participated in an interesting series of sessions and interactive demonstrations from 20+ cloud providers.
With more and more organizations moving from evaluating the cloud to actual deployment, it is not surprising that trust, transparency and compliance came up during this event. Cloud providers should be prepared to address questions in these areas.
I was invited to deliver a keynote presentation at the event, in which I outlined the investments Microsoft makes in three broad categories: 1) the development of secure cloud offerings; 2) datacenter security; and 3) incident response – communication to customers if and when the unexpected occurs.
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