The Cloud is More Secure Than You

I was reading a recent interview with FEMA CIO Richard Spires (Cloud security fears exaggerated, says federal CIO)on how he has taken an aggressive approach to moving the US infrastructure to the cloud.

I am often asked whether clouding computing is “secure enough” for their company. There are very few companies that run Microsoft Exchange better, and therefore more secure, than Microsoft. All Salesforce.com does is run Salesforce.

Your company on the other hand runs Microsoft Exchange, a CRM platform, a financial system, etc. Your systems administrators are administering multiple types of systems everyday.

Whenmanufacturingassembly lines were created in the early 1900s, they quickly determined that if you specialized in doing one thing — putting widget a into widget b — you would do it better and more efficiently than having one person piece together multiple parts.

The same can be said for many cloud computing vendors.

So if you move to the cloud, your data won’t get hacked? Of course that possibility exists. But if you choose a good cloud provider, it isn’t any more likely to be stolen.

As originally posted at jayschulman.com on September 17, 2011.