A Gathering Storm - Cloud Computing And Legal Risk

Lawyers shine light on real cloud concerns | The Wisdom of Clouds - CNET News. Today seems to be my day for clouds and rainstorm metaphors. While cloud computing is a metaphor for web-based software and computing, there are many risks, and not all of them relate to the security of the data as applied to a specific business or application. Will cloud computing make large-scale data attacks more likely? If a cloud computing application is hacked, it eliminates the necessity of hacking thousands and millions of individual computers. Every computer that uses the web-based application will be compromised. The author of this post points out several problems with cloud computing that focus on the difficulties. Lawyers need to strike a balance between the benefits of web-based computing power and efficiency, and the real risks. How do we do that? Baby steps, children, baby steps.

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[Matt Horn]

These issues should be considered by all cloud computing providers and users. If the provider cannot give reasonable answers to these issues then perhaps they should stay out of the cloud.