Trusting the Cloud (Score 1)

http://research.zscaler.com/2008/09/trusting-cloud.html When leveraging cloud based apps, in this case webmail, security is vital not only in the cloud but during transmission to the cloud. While this is often the responsibility of the enterprise itself, here is a situation where Yahoo! was responsible for all components (client and server) and still didn't get it right. Cloud computing will not succeed unless enterprises are able to trust those making online services available to them. Situations such as this, where security was clearly an afterthought, do not help to build the trust required for cloud computing to succeed.